{"id":8827,"date":"2013-08-23T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2022-05-02T00:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T14:41:38","slug":"red-tie-day-stephaniedale22-reports-belatedly-on-the-treasurers-visit-to-forde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/red-tie-day-stephaniedale22-reports-belatedly-on-the-treasurers-visit-to-forde\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tie day: @stephaniedale22 reports belatedly on the shadow treasurer’s visit to Forde"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Stephanie Dale<\/a><\/p>\n

23 August 2013<\/p>\n

\"Bert<\/p>\n

Oh look, page 6 of the Albert & Logan News – it’s Bert!<\/p>\n

Bert van Manen with the biggest watermelon smile of the campaign, arms over shoulders with the would-be treasurer, Joe Hockey, who must have coincidentally been in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Unlike the rest of the candidates in Forde, I simply cannot get Bert’s campaign to take me seriously. Clearly, Bert is a man who likes to work only with those with whom he is familiar, those he already knows he can trust.<\/p>\n

Consequently, in the interests of fair play, I have to rely on local reports by those who have already won his affections to cover Bert for \u00a0No Fibs.<\/p>\n

He is, after all, a) the sitting member and b) the primary obstacle to former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie’s federal parliamentary ambitions.<\/p>\n

Now to the story: what is most odd about the photo in the paper is that Bert is wearing a red tie.<\/p>\n

Joe, naturally, is sporting Liberal ‘campaign blue’ – but why is Bert, the party loyalist, wearing red? Or it could be brown . . . I wasn’t invited along to Beenleigh’s Luv a Coffee to see for myself.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Joe called Bert a ‘Beattie beater’ – and Bert reckons unlike Peter, he’s not one to beat his chest for the media. To be fair to Peter, he hasn’t beaten his chest once in my presence – just responded straight up to requests from me.<\/p>\n

Like most Forde candidates, Bert lists ‘jobs’ as a priority. Which is wise, considering he represents one of the highest youth-unemployment regions in the nation.<\/p>\n

The front page of the paper sums up the issue for the people of Forde: one casual job in a chocolate shop – 350 applicants.<\/p>\n

Palmer United Party candidate Blair Brewster pointed out yesterday that the major parties have had decades to deliver on jobs for the people of Forde. And 26,000 people a day are travelling up and down the M1 to work – in Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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