Nathan Hobby’s blog

Riot cops prepare for Sydney’s ‘worst-ever’ violence : thewest.com.au

I hate the way they’ve locked the whole of Sydney down. The establishment is throwing everything it can against the protestors. It has all the power and all the money, and it would dearly love there to be no voice of dissent. No-one to say to Bush and Howard: you have done evil!

I hate the mining boom in Western Australia.  

It’s made life much worse for me and my wife. So many mining workers flooding in from the east, driving up house prices and cost of living, while public servants like me haven’t got anything extra. (The government hasn’t even spent money on the public service in this time of prosperity!)

I can’t wait for the mining boom to end. Then maybe rent and house prices in Perth might be affordable again.

It’s union boss Joe Mcdonald that’s getting kicked out of the ALP, not Kevin Mcdonald. But both of them sum up what’s wrong with the union movement. I read an article in the Sunday Times magazine a few weeks ago photographing Reynolds at his multi-million dollar apartment. I can’t stand such hypocrisy. He adopts the language and look of the working class, and yet his life has no affinity with them. They aren’t concerned with social justice; they’re concerned with furthering their own wealth no matter if it creates injustice on the way.