Whales in Labor

There are still many unknown in the coming Federal Election, but one thing looks certain - Peter Garret will get a seat in the new Parliament.

He was selected to one of the safest Labor seats - Kingsford Smith - by Mark Latham in 2004. In the meantime:

- Mark Latham resigned from politics after angering his party,

- visionary Kevin Rudd has been sacked by his own party for not satisfactory performance in opinion polls,

- Peter Garret.. well...

• tried to close one of most successful music institutions (Australian National Academy of Music) - luckily this project failed.
• introduced a solar panel installation rebate. After few months, this scheme was abruptly terminated after exceeding threefold planned costs. Apart from devastating many installers, who had to close thousands of started projects, this scheme had very bad effect on Australian manufacturers of solar panel as they were not protected against import of cheap panels from overseas. Another issue is safety of hastily made installations. It seems they scared Peter Garret from some public appearances.
• home insulation scheme, I think, my comments are not required here.

Labor understood that Peter Garret was unable to sort the last mess and handed it over to someone else. So he was stripped of most of his duties, but he retained his ministerial position where his main duty will be protection of whales.

And now, 6 years and many billion dollars later, Peter Garret is still the best Labor candidate.

I expect great future for whale watching.