NEWS
By Don Gordon-Brown
“As you are aware, this matter was raised during the last two elections and the ruling was that the LNP branding did not infringe on Council’s corporate branding” was the short, sharp reply from some anonymous hack at Team Quirk as his boss Lord Mayor Graham Quirk once again refused to answer questions this paper believes the vast majority of its readers would regard as reasonable and fair. They were directed specifically to him.
As the media outlet that has campaigned ferociously against the disgraceful use of the copycat council cleat for years, The Independent knows nothing of any such ruling. Or anything about who might have raised the issue during the 2008 (the Can-Do era) and 2012 elections. And our request for the who, what, where and why details of this “ruling” has been met with the chicken-hearted, cowardly silence we’ve come to expect from Team Quirk and the LNP.
So here’s our best guess. The “ruling” was probably made by….
1. A gathering of the council’s spin-doctors as they enjoyed a well-earned Friday night drink after a busy week of spin-doctoring, provided they could find a venue big enough for all of them
2. A meeting of LNP councillors just before a Tuesday night sitting of the full council, probably through a quick show of hands
3. Some LNP lawyer-type who probably can’t spell “intellectual property” let alone know the legalities of how or why it’s enforced, or
4. Cr Quirk himself, fully robed in his Lord Mayoral finery, and nodding furiously into a mirror at City Hall while agreeing wholeheartedly with himself that everything he was doing was perfectly reasonable and above board.
