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catsidheDing Dong, the Witch is dead!
Andre Haermeyer has defended his record as Victoria's Police Minister, after he was dumped in a Cabinet reshuffle.
Mr Haermeyer is swapping roles with the former Minister for Manufacturing and Export, and Small Business, Tim Holding.
Mr Haermeyer has stood by some of his more controversial decisions as minister, including his handling of police corruption and Melbourne's underworld murders.
"I've batted some very difficult issues for the Government, I'm pleased to have batted those issues, and I think at the end of the day, whilst there's been controversy, I think I've been vindicated," he said.
"Whether you want to have a look at road safety, we've saved lives, hundreds of them, whether you want to talk about underworld killings, and police corruptions, those trials will be coming up this year."
The reshuffle also included removing Mary Delahunty from Planning and Peter Batchelor from Major Projects.
The new Cabinet will be sworn in this afternoon.
Please excuse me while I fail to restrain my gleeful giggling. That thuggish bully-boy Haermeyer just got demoted, baby! Oh, it's not a punishment, oh no. Nor did Bracks have anything to say about Haermeyers popularity in his rôle of keeping the masses in their place.
If only his trail of destruction of civil liberties can be as easily repaired as he was set aside.
Vic's outgoing police minister defends record
Andre Haermeyer has defended his record as Victoria's Police Minister, after he was dumped in a Cabinet reshuffle.
Mr Haermeyer is swapping roles with the former Minister for Manufacturing and Export, and Small Business, Tim Holding.
Mr Haermeyer has stood by some of his more controversial decisions as minister, including his handling of police corruption and Melbourne's underworld murders.
"I've batted some very difficult issues for the Government, I'm pleased to have batted those issues, and I think at the end of the day, whilst there's been controversy, I think I've been vindicated," he said.
"Whether you want to have a look at road safety, we've saved lives, hundreds of them, whether you want to talk about underworld killings, and police corruptions, those trials will be coming up this year."
The reshuffle also included removing Mary Delahunty from Planning and Peter Batchelor from Major Projects.
The new Cabinet will be sworn in this afternoon.
Please excuse me while I fail to restrain my gleeful giggling. That thuggish bully-boy Haermeyer just got demoted, baby! Oh, it's not a punishment, oh no. Nor did Bracks have anything to say about Haermeyers popularity in his rôle of keeping the masses in their place.
If only his trail of destruction of civil liberties can be as easily repaired as he was set aside.
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Date: 2005-02-06 11:18 pm (UTC)Bracks seems to have about three competent ministers to try to shuffle around all the portfolios.
And if there were no other reason to be glad to see Haermeyer go, at least we won't have to see his Ralph Wiggum looking head on the news every night.