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Money talks: Labor hypocrisy plumbs new depths

ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries writes:

Julia Gillard was right, the Labor Party did lose its way, and to date it hasn’t found it either.

The Labor Party are all over the shop at the moment.  They struggle to have a firm position on pretty much anything but the latest release of electoral donations data shows that Labor aren’t practising what they preach.

Nicola Roxon is against smoking and has spent millions of dollars on a new anti-smoking campaign, but what she won’t tell you is that in Canberra the ACT Labor clubs sell cigarettes and the Labor clubs are ACT Labor’s biggest contributors.

Julia Gillard has “embarked on landmark pokie reform” but here in Canberra the ACT Labor Party’s Labor Clubs rely on the money they get from the pokies.

How can you expect Jon Stanhope to go into COAG and be taken seriously when his party relies so heavily on the money reaped in by pokies?

The three federal members from the ACT are in the same boat; do they support reducing smoking? are they against gambling?

If so, why do they take donations from these very two areas?

If they are serious, Kate Lundy, Andrew Leigh and Gai Brodtmann would rule out using any money raised from pokies and cigarette sales in their campaigns. If they won’t, they are hypocrites of the worst kind.?

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One Response to Money talks: Labor hypocrisy plumbs new depths

Ted Spin says: 7 February 2011 at 5:25 am

End of pokies end of $$$ for the party , its politics and we are learning nothing new in this discussion bar the obvious. Why not investigate why the Labor government wont back poker machines into the Casino , one think it would eliminate a major income stream.

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