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JetCat SMS Alerts - Welcome News for Commuters

Wed 1 Oct - Manly JetCat commuters will soon receive a SMS alert to find out if their service is delayed or cancelled as part of a trial by Sydney Ferries, which was recommended by Manly MP Mike Baird last year.
“JetCat commuters will be pleased that as of Thursday they can subscribe to receive a free text message on their mobile phone so they know if their JetCat is cancelled or running late,” Mr Baird said. “Instead of rushing to get to the wharf for the fast service, only to find out you need to wait another half an hour, commuters will be able to better plan their journeys.”
Mr Baird said introducing SMS alerts was one of seven recommendations he put to the Walker Inquiry into Sydney Ferries in July 2007...

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Mon 29 Sept - Does anyone like me feel as if we have come to the end of all things positive? There is this strange sense within me that as we wake each morning there is an inevitable angst as the latest corporate collapses, stock market falls or oil price surges tell us more uncertainty will reign.

 In terms of fundamentals the world has never really seen a liquidity crunch like it and there is a great sense of irony that banks whose managers spend every waking hour considering their liquidity positions - have somehow missed a crisis that was always going to come. The temptation to stretch the bounds of lending, the lack of regulatory oversight of capital put aside for derivatives and the global reach of distribution has meant that many people have risks they never knew they did... 
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Motion of No Confidence in Government

Wed 24 Sept - I support the motion of no confidence in the Government. It is incredible for a Government at its 18-month mark to be at such a low ebb in the view of a broad spectrum of the community. The Government has got to the point where it cannot hide. After almost 14 years of financial mismanagement, on street corners, in town halls and hospital waiting rooms and at stations and ferry wharves, wherever you go, people are saying they have had enough. The reasons why they have had enough are compelling rationale for the Government to say, "We have got it wrong. We believe that the people of New South Wales deserve a better Government. We will go back to the people, put a new vision to them and let the people have a say."

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