Introducing the NSW Lotus Flowers

[JediKnight]

NSW Premier accidentally replaces waratah with lotus

IT HAS been the state's floral emblem since 1962 but, with the stroke of an artist's pen, Premier Nathan Rees has replaced the waratah with the national flower of India, the lotus.
It is the latest - and maybe the greatest - embarrassment yet for the State Government.

The Daily Telegraph has discovered that the new State Government logo, designed at a cost of more than $5000, is a lotus, an aquatic plant sacred to Buddhists and native to Asia and northern parts of Australia.

The extraordinary bungle has outraged the Government's own scientific departments, which claimed they were not consulted about the new logo despite having expertise in sketching waratahs.

"It is a joke," one government scientist said.

"It is not a waratah. It cannot in any conceivable way be considered a waratah. It is a lotus."

To add to the absurdity, government departments and ministers have been told they must ask special permission from the Premier's office before using it.

Mr Rees was forced to admit in Parliament two weeks ago that the new logo was designed by external consultants - after first trying to claim it was drawn "in-house".

"I advise the House (that) the Department of Commerce spent approximately $4600 on the design of the red waratah logo," Mr Rees told Parliament on June 16.

A senior Government source pointed out that the ancient Greeks first ascribed the lotus to a mythological race of North Africans who used to feed on the narcotic qualities of the plant to achieve "peaceful apathy".

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/stor...84-949,00.html

[Swee_82]

Haha... geez, the NSW government overtook the WA House for laughs a long time ago, and that's saying something:



In other news the NSW Government has decided that people should be on the alert for the Penrith Panther (Feline, not Bogan):

http://www.smh.com.au/national/rees-...0715-dllx.html

[jargan83]

I was speaking to my grandparents and some friends over there at the weekend and they told me the NSW Government could not organise a proverbial in a brothel at the moment

Haha... geez, the NSW government overtook the WA House for laughs a long time ago

I dunno, Barney Rubble and Co still give me plenty of laughs

[AndyS]

Classic. Could any of these clowns organise a fart in a bathtub full of beans?

[tragic]

Rotus Frowers!

[brokendown gunfighter]

Rotus Frowers!

you sirry irriot

[travelling_gerry]

Supplies!!!!!!!!!!

[Darren]

lets not talk about teh erection...

[jargan83]

speaking of Governments wasting money......



That is the WA Coat of Arms, and was the logo on anything to do with the WA State Government, so when the Labor Government was elected they spent alot of $$$ with various Graphic Designers on a new logo (which seems to have dissappeared off of the face of the planet), so what did the Liberal Government do when elected? Scrapped the new Labor Logo and restored the Coat of Arms as Government logo.

Not the same as accidently changing your state emblem to that of a foriegn weed, but just highlights the waste of both time and money that can occur