tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post2736044387640724425..comments2024-01-20T10:32:53.309+10:00Comments on CairnsBlog.net: Media identities Kerie Hull, Damon Guppy join Gavin King campaignMichael P Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-81966773392123107462011-10-19T14:23:28.288+10:002011-10-19T14:23:28.288+10:00By the way, it's good to see that Damon Guppy ...By the way, it's good to see that Damon Guppy has joined the team. My previous experience with Damon was when he contacted me a few years ago after I provided info to the Cairns Post on a rat plague on the Cairns Esplanade. <br /><br />Deputy Mayor at the time Margy (fuck me i know nothing) Gill claimed she knew nuffink of the third world rat plague despite living directly opposite!<br /><br />Go Damon!KitchenSluthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947481064967081891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-8224775005006038022011-10-13T12:28:36.373+10:002011-10-13T12:28:36.373+10:00Bryan, I was correcting the statement..."Labo...Bryan, I was correcting the statement..."Labor has infamously held the seat continually for 100 years.."<br />I was told you would quickly latch onto the term of Jim Lyons (1902-1904) and sneeringly point out this was over 100 years ago, as if I didn't know. However, as I mentioned above, an Independent served during the war years between 1942 and 1947. <br />The statement "Labor has infamously held the seat continually for 100 years" is infamously wrong!Terry Vancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877795512713940515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-81202227412877869882011-10-13T11:10:44.765+10:002011-10-13T11:10:44.765+10:00errr Terry 1902-04 was errr MORE than 100 years ag...errr Terry 1902-04 was errr MORE than 100 years ago. But you're right the ALP has only held Cairns for ninety something years over the last century. <br /><br />So when Kirsten Lesina loses it for Labor this time, it won't be notable at all, will it.<br /><br />Mate, is this piffle the very best you can do?Bryan Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828616096900664359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-90126677979617767242011-10-13T05:48:09.886+10:002011-10-13T05:48:09.886+10:00"Labor has infamously held the seat continual..."Labor has infamously held the seat continually for 100 years."<br />I wonder just who come up with that corruption of Cairns history? I guess it is all too easy to parrot back something a mexican says without, you know, bothering to check the Queensland Parliamentary Handbook or chat with long time locals. The fact is since the seat of Cairns was created back in the 19th century, there have been three non-Labor representatives. LYONS STREET which crosses Mulgrave Road at Westcourt was named for JIM LYONS, a Ministerialist or Conservative Member for Cairns 1902 to 1904. Louis (Joe) Barnes was an Independent Member during the War Years 1942 to 1947. Relatives of Joe Barnes still live in the Cairns area.<br />(My Aunt passed this information on to me to post here.)Terry Vancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877795512713940515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-59412264889672477402011-10-12T23:10:29.134+10:002011-10-12T23:10:29.134+10:00Oh dear! Not kerry Hull again? Every mejia person ...Oh dear! Not kerry Hull again? Every mejia person in town with any integrity knows she was the one leaking like an incontinent bladder to the Cairns Post.KitchenSluthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947481064967081891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-25968048065188024462011-10-12T21:02:31.973+10:002011-10-12T21:02:31.973+10:00Hmmm. Explains a lot.Hmmm. Explains a lot.D.J.HUNThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17290562041092960645noreply@blogger.com