A friend sent me this and thought I would post it.
Very interesting!
Here’s some interesting stuff about the 2 Independents
There is always another angle to this that might not suit everyone's palate.
Jeff Seeney (LNP - Callide) explained it primarily in reference to Judy Spence.
This current Federal debacle of delaying the election result, is really all about superannuation and self interest. Bob Katter has completed 38 years of Federal/State representative service and is on "the really old super scheme". So he has millions in super and he gains nothing much by chasing more.
Moreover he wants Robbie Katter Jnr., his son to become the member at the next election (for Kennedy) to follow him. He also hates Labour and if he voted for them, Robbie will never get there. He also despises the Greens and is pro- Aboriginal. That is real Aboriginal and he wants them to be given property/land title to their homes. This is very fair. Labour refuses to allow it.
Oakeshott wants his 20 year superannuation payout but he needs 2 full years more to get it. He has done a combined 18 years of Federal and State representative survive. The first 10 years served as a National party member. After 20 years on the super scheme post 1988 his super quantum starts to decline rapidly.
That scheme has ended now post Mark Latham for all new members elected since 2006, all on the really old scheme have no 20 year rule. Oakeshott is chasing the Ministerial position because it will maximize his superannuation payout since the scale of the super payout final amount is determined by the end salary.
If he stayed as a backbencher, it declines at the backbenchers rate at 20 years too but the quantum either as a balloon or monthly payout is much lower. Most will have missed it.
Rob Oakeshott did not want another election for at least 2 years to guarantee his maximal superannuation payout. That alone that drove his decision. Oakeshott desperately sought the Ministerial position, not for the power but the salary. Especially the END Salary he would retire by choice or by losing when he finished Federal service on.
Windsor collects his super at end 2011,one year earlier. He will have done 20 years State/Federal all as an independent, never with the Ministerial salary. His opportunity is gone for that.
He has sold his farm at Werris Creek for a crazy price that is hard to believe, his wife has collected her Teachers super (40 years) and they want a place at ? Palm Beach Byron Bay
Forget all the rhetoric. Both Oakeshott and Windsor are finished in their electorates. They will be reviled by all, forever. Neither of them will care. This was all about them and their futures.
Oakeshott acknowledged that Tony Abbott would have won another election, if we had another election soon. Both stated that the background hiss from Coalition people was about another Federal election. That was why the duo did what they did, for another election in the next 3-12 months was their greatest fear.
Katter would not share their box at 3.00 pm because he was addressing the National interest and just a small dose of his own. He genuinely put up his 20 points and defended them all.
Windsor thought that the electorate would swallow the Broadband rubbish and Oakeshott just made a fool of himself, with all the waffle.
Self interest to the bitter end, what a disgrace. A coward makes the final decision. Shakespeare to the end. To be or not to be - that is the question ! or maybe Cowards die many times before their deaths. We have a terrible time ahead ..
At 4.45am on Sunday 3rd December mounted police and soldiers attacked the stockade. Lalor took command. Standing on an exposed mound, he ordered the miners not to fire until the police and troops were at close range. He then ordered the pikemen forward. Just at that moment, a musket ball and two bullets struck him in the left shoulder. Realising the battle was lost, he ordered the miners to flee. He was picked up from the ground and was hidden in a woodpile. Later that morning, Lalor was spirited away by supporters. That evening he had his left arm amputated at the shoulder joint without the use of anaesthetics. 
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Having a beer with him is hysterical. They asked him at interview if he “believed in climate change”. he’s a natural born bullsh*tter himself and he saw which way the wind was blowing and fed them babblespeak.
Most of them creamed themselves with joy. He said it was obviously a closed shop. Only true believers got in.
Now, he reckons it’s a clear breach of the Public Service rules to have to say you “believe” in something the Dept deals with before getting a job there - but nobody who did not say yes (and with messianic enthusiasm) EVER got past an interview panel that he saw.
On the policy level they just make crap up on the fly, or called the Greens and get ‘science’ from them. POLICY is based on this approach. Policy they spend your hard-earned on.
Most of the staff have no idea that anyone in the world disagrees with AGW.
It’s a flaming shambles and a colossal waste of money according to him, and he worked there. It got so bad (he had nothing to do for half his time there), that he’d wander over to a mutual friend’s Department for ‘meetings’ and do work for them just so he could look at himself in the shaving mirror each morning and know he was doing something for Joe Public to justify his pay.
Others, including his boss, would ‘go to a meeting all afternoon’ every time there was a new movie in town.
Their secretary gave a Greenie babblespeak to some oil conference last year and literally got laughed at. He was giving straight Greens talking points to a highly educated, technically literate audience and they just shredded the guy.
He can go on for hours with yarns from the place, and it’s ALL bad.