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UNSTABLE GOVERNMENT: Tas Greens Minister loses chief of staff for “health reasons”
Former Queensland Labor MP who left the ALP before jumping ship to the Greens, Ronan Lee (pictured extreme right), has left his post as “Head of Office†to Tasmanian Greens Minister for Community Development Nick McKim after only six months in the role.
Lee’s socially conservative views apparently made his stay with the Greens an uncomfortable one at times, insiders say.
Greens observers in Tasmania say the move confirms reservations held by the business community that the Greens party is unstable and represents a “ticking time-bomb†for their current Labor coalition partners.
The Minister McKim is the de facto partner of Cabinet secretary Cass O’Connor.
Today, confirming the strange nature of the Tasmanian regime, O’Connor – McKim’s lover – demanded the Labor Environment minister take action to protect the rights and freedoms of Tasmania’s possum community. Hundreds of thousands of possums are culled a year in Tasmania to protect farmers’ crops. Even Age journalists refer to the cute creatures as “vermin†because of their attacks on inner-urban vege patches. Some entrepreneurs – keen to make a quid and to help out Tassie farmers too are hoping to export possum skins for clothing and hats for what is described as a “growing market†in New Zealand and also to export possum meat to an emerging market where they might have a taste for it, in the People’s Republic of China.
The statement:
The Minister for Community Development, Nick McKim, said today his Head of Office, Ronan Lee, had resigned for health reasons.
“I want to thank Ronan for his support for me over the last year, and for his efforts in establishing my Ministerial office,†Mr McKim said.
“Ronan made an outstanding contribution to the Greens’ recent election campaign, for which I will always be grateful.
“I wish him well and all the best for the future.â€
He said he hoped to advertise soon for a new Head of Office.
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Funny position title, “Head of Office” hahaha.
I have a Head Boy in my office who is my PA, helping me with all sorts of little jobs.
The greens are probably going through what ended the Democrats. They haven’t had any power before, just airy gaiety ideas. Now that they have to put up I the real world they are realising that it is harder than it looks, and things are falling apart. The same will happen in the senate and potentially in the hoise. Watch out.
Also watch out for the few hardcore socialist/communist greens members freaking out when basically any decision is made, as it won’t be left wing or extreme enough for them. Be warned.
Exactly Joe…the Greens are cuckoos of the first order…and whilst the have pinched this election…they will never ever be able to keep their house in order… Daddy Brown is already spatting with Adam Ant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJREJpzzKsI
What a joke this man has become.
Keep trying… You’re doing so well right now, right?
Will the by-election causing MP be able to get a job? He is 53 and newspaper reports say his super/pension is $70,000 a year.
But he’s going through a divorce so his wife will take at least half of that plus half the house.
$35,000 a year plus half a house cant be enough, so what job could this intellectual mouse possibly get???
Coming out and saying that the Greens wouldn’t work with a Coalition government was a bit stupid. In saying this Bob Brown had the good sense to say that the Greens could and would be happy to work cooperatively with any government. As long as Bob is in charge and members of the Greens actually listen to him, the Greens should be okay. I agree that they might politically self-implode like the Democrats if they appear to be too close to Labor. The need to present as a politically objective party. If they do, they’ll have a long future ahead of them. If not, they’ll be history.