I READ with amazement the comments of Troy Grant, the Nationals member for Dubbo, in which he said in reference to Orange not getting the proposed regional train servicing depot that is what happens when “you don’t have someone at the decision-making table of government”.
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Well, when Mr Grant occupied the second top seat at “the decision-making table of government”, he was responsible for the greyhound ban (since abandoned), forced council amalgamations (since abandoned) and the new trains for the Sydney-Lithgow line (now discovered not be the right size so, at a cost of millions and millions of dollars, lines and station platforms have to be re-aligned).
I get the impression Mr Grant does not like Orange and its citizens.
He has good reason to not like us. After all, he lost the deputy premiership and leadership of the state Nationals party because the people of the Orange electorate exercised their democratic right to elect Phil Donato and not the Nationals candidate.
So how genuine is the new Nationals leader and now deputy premier John Barilaro when he comes trumpeting to Orange, offering us all sorts of goodies in the hope that we will elect a Nationals candidate at the 2019 election?
Are we really going to get any of these goodies when “you don’t have someone at the decision-making table of government”?
Seems to me that Troy Grant and John Barilaro need to have a good long yarn.