Cowdery rubbishes State Plan
March 9th, 2007Top prosecutor Nicholas Cowdery, QC, described the NSW State Plan as ‘ludicrous’ in the SMH today. He’s the only Department Head who is game to criticise the government as he enjoys a lifetime appointment.
It’s the same conclusion we came to, although more on environmental grounds than legal ones.
It is such a transparent load of glossy spin it beggars belief that the government has been wasting taxpayers’ money by advertising it on prime-time TV.
Premier Iemma said the plan was a result of ‘thousands of submissions’ from the public. What an insult to the intelligence when standard procedure is to take the submissions, ignore all those that differ from the existing agenda and then carry on regardless.
To crown the cynicism, they titled it ‘A new direction for NSW’. Since when was planning to increase road transport emissions, burning more coal and law-and-order auctions a ‘new direction’?
Anyone considering voting for it really needs to read our brief analysis (link above) and about the equally ludicrous Sydney Transport Plan.
