Some people think that the collapse of trust in politics comes from an inward focus: many politicians took to the vocation in their youth, have never done anything else, and thus have no idea of what it is to live a normal life.
As if responding to that, South Australian Parliament (fresh from its own bout of navel gazing with the expulsion of veteran MP John Dawkins) has decided to knuckle down and do what really matters: spend more than a quarter of a million dollars maintaining the building’s chandelier winches.
Yep, during an almost unparalleled international financial crisis — with hundreds of thousands losing work and businesses going to the wall — the SA parliament has found $260,000 to spend on chandelier winches.
Look at it this way, Charlie. That’s probably $260,000 which will be spent paying an invoice to a company servicing / replacing winches, keeping someone in a job and potentially preventing a company going to the wall.
If the winches were left unserviced and there was a failure, possibly with severe injury to someone standing below, would you them be driven to write “for less than $0.25M the SA parliament could have prevented this tragedy.”?
When we eventually storm the palace those winched will be handy for stringing up those who didn’t escape.
Well they just got that money back from the member for Schubert ($29,000) and thought the could use it as a deposit.
It will need more than refurbished lights for them to find their way.