Colin Barnett Truthfulness| ABC Radio| Liberal Party| WA Election

Colin Barnett Truthfulness| ABC Radio| Liberal Party| WA Election:

Liar, Liar Pants On Fire

In practice, Mr Barnett's leadership style is so hands off, it is often interpreted as a total lack of interest in the work of others. As a man with a deep commitment to political process, it isn't until a problem arises in someone else's portfolio that he becomes involved and, by that stage, the situation is often so off the rails that he is forced to respond with a very heavy hand.

To many who have experienced his strong corrective actions first hand, it's hard not to feel as though you have been reprimanded by one of those old-fashioned, long sock wearing grumpy deputy principals we all feared in our school days.

He gets curt. He gets grumpy. And most of all, he doesn't coach people in repairing a stuff-up, opting to simply jump in and take over.

Over the four and a bit years of his leadership, that unforgiving process has scared ministers and staff into a pattern of doing nothing controversial, and certainly not without first getting the Premier 100 per cent on board.

Australia: Kimberley graveyard to rise as the “Saudi Arabia of Gas” | Asia News – Politics, Media, Education | Asian Correspondent

Australia: Kimberley graveyard to rise as the “Saudi Arabia of Gas

James Price Point is one of the fiercest battlegrounds between the Indigenous people and the Australian Government in contemporary times. With the support of the local communities, Green and civic groups, the Indigenous people are fighting to protect the “Law Below the Top Soil” – the law handed down from many generations to another that governs their ancestral rights.