Somebody might like to tell Julia Gillard that Sydney’s westies might come from the other side of the tracks but they’re not stupid.
On the contrary. Our future leaders in every field of endeavour – politics, business, academia, community, the professions, arts and sport will come from Western Sydney. They will be successful because they will have earned the right to be so. They will be tolerant and non-judgemental because of their cultural diversity. They will be respectful of the sacrifices made by their parents to ensure a quality education. They will be self-satisfied because they will have had to be self-reliant. They will be humbled by the pride their teachers, mentors, families and mates have for them.
But they are easily insulted when they are taken for granted or treated like idiots.
A couple of weeks ago Labor’s Sussex Street spivs realised that Westies don’t like illegal immigrants gate-crashing our immigration system. They also discovered they don’t like being referred to as ‘rednecks’ by the commentariat and their latte sipping sycophants. Quick as a flash they had Julia Gillard and David Bradbury, an unknown Labor lackey from Lindsay, on a jet to Darwin for a naval photo shoot. Bradbury’s political diaper would have been wet with excitement during this taxpayer funded stunt.
Never mind that another boatload of illegals arrived at Christmas Island the day after they jetted back to their media conference in Sydney. More illegals have arrived since and hundreds more are expected. The next navy ship to be commissioned by Labor should be named ‘HMAS Centrelink’.
It’s a fair bet that most of these illegals will settle in Western Sydney despite the fact that we are full. Last Thursday around 10 ambulances, two with serious burn patients, were queued at the Emergency Ward at Liverpool Hospital because our health system can no longer cope.
Every day hundreds of thousands of Western Sydney commuters are gridlocked on the M4, M5 and every other arterial road leading to and from work. Thousands more are subject to the indignity of inadequate and unreliable public transport systems.
NSW used to be the Premier State. It used to be the engine room of the Australian economy. It is now an economic wreck after 15 years of mismanagement by Australia’s worst ever State Labor Government.
Last week, Julia Gillard, announced $1 billion dollars for new Federal projects in Queensland where she has to make up ground after she knifed their Prime Minister.
All she allocated to NSW were 16 new hospital beds at Concord. No new roads. No new railways. No new infrastructure. Just a patronising gesture directed towards their hard-core political herd in Western Sydney.
Julia Gillard is obviously assuming that Sydney’s westies can be taken for granted yet again. It could well be a stupid assumption.
