Talk:Jon Stanhope

Longest serving Chief Minister
Unbelievable that until I made the latest adjustment to this article that no one seems to notice that Stanhope is in fact the longest serving ACT Chief Minister. Until I made this addition people only seem to notice that Stanhope is currently the longest serving head of government of the current nine heads of Federal, State and Territory Governments. Obviously no one bother to check out his local record as Chief Minister of the ACT. The Shadow Treasurer (talk) 03:31, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we knew but didn't bother to add it as it's not all that significant when the parliament has only been in existance for two decades. Timeshift (talk) 03:35, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

It is significant to the people of the ACT in which he is the Chief Minister of.

Time for admins to step in
This continual uncited, completely WP:POV rubbish needs dealing with. Random IPs just won't cease. Perhaps a semi-protect is warranted? Timeshift (talk) 09:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

There are serious WP:POV issues with this article, particularly the section on the 2003 bushfires. Unless someone can justify the current wording, I will be editing this article to fix this problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.32.87.70 (talk) 12:20, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

This is one of the most politically biased articles I have seen. Change is needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.129.237.234 (talk) 01:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree with this users comment - also the Admin needs to track the user who posted the kind propaganda about this person; And show the amount of money given by the users who created the entry. This article makes light work of the damage done by this Ministers Government (everything he has done should be listed, with links for posting user feedback that show the full extent of this Ministers choices without any responsbility but to get re-elected). Should any of the IP addresses be that of ACT Government computers then the minister needs to repay the people of Canberra for his improper use of public services to promote a one sided political re-write of history. The sad thing is that people affected by a person without any responsibility have to put up with this propaganda that never takes into consideration the secret donations keeping this person in a job (their compnay IP and personal addresses if any, should also be added to the ban list - it works both ways).

I agree with this users comment - also the Admin needs to track the user who posted the kind propaganda about this person (and links with other users); And show the amount of money given to wiki by the users who created the entry. This article makes light work of the damage and very little good done by this Ministers buck passing Government (everything he has done should be listed, with links for posting user feedback and user video that shows the full extent of this Ministers choices without any responsbility but to get re-elected). Should any of the IP addresses be that of ACT Government computers then the minister needs to repay the people of Canberra for his improper use of public services to promote a one sided political re-write of history. Adding a ban after the inital propaganda was posted is a joke - read the license conditions before inital posting - people are permitted to post comment - this article may be re-written if corretion is required and no ban on anything should be needed (or are you slandering other political parties or non-members of the ALP for some kind of sick political benefits)...

The main things missing from the article is the amount spent to retain power, and the total figure of secret donations taken by the ministers party to retain political control without any responsibility but to be re-elected

Any request at Banning people from making posts after inital posting of the propaganda is posted should be taken with a grain of salt. It is a stupid request to ban users unless the requestor would like to post a list of things done by the minister, with links to other wiki pages for public comment.


 * I've done a bit of a clean-up on this article, but more is still to be done. In short, there in much in this articel that relates to the Stanhope Government, and less so that actually related to Stanhope, himself. I have removed matters of limited relvance and condensed, where possible. The Topsfield article in The Age has helped improve a large number of missing citations; but there is still some missing, as identified. Jherschel (talk) 15:43, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Citations needed
Citations are needed for the following: "Opponents predicted the Act would cause a flood of litigation, or transfer power away from the ACT Legislative Assembly. These predictions have not eventuated. The Act's main influence has been on policy development, ensuring legislative changes comply with the requirements of the Act" 210.23.146.66 (talk) 02:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Resignation
Now that he is no longer Chief Minister, when does he resign being the member of Ginninderra, etc? CanberraBulldog (talk) 12:32, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought he was Chief Minister up until the 16 May 2011 (Monday)? Bidgee (talk) 12:43, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * That was my original understanding of his plans, but for reasons he explained on the radio this morning involving allowing time for the gazettal of a special meeting of the Assembly on Monday to elect his successor (the gazettal can't happen until the office is vacant), he resigned the office of Chief Minister effective close of business yesterday (12 May). See for some confirmation (not very good, I admit, but it's about the best we can get until his letter to the Speaker is tabled in Parliament, which I assume will happen on Monday). He will (as far as I know) resign his position as a member of the Assembly for Ginninderra soon after the election of the new Chief Minister on Monday 16 May. At that point his seat will remain vacant until approximately 10 days after the Electoral Commission publishes a notice calling for unsuccessful candidates for his seat at the last election to express interest in the casual vacancy, at which point the votes will be distributed again and a new member declared elected. bou·le·var·dier (talk) 12:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks heaps for that, interesting times. CanberraBulldog (talk) 13:21, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

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Error in number of children of Jon Stanhope? Five or four?
The page reports Mr Stanhope has "Five children", citing an article from The Age "Sticking to his guns" https://www.theage.com.au/national/sticking-to-his-guns-20051022-ge13i0.html

But the article (published in 2005 when Mr Stanhope was 54 years old) states: "In Canberra, he met Robyn, a palliative care nurse and counsellor, and the couple had four children." The article has no reference to a fifth child.

Can someone update/correct this Wikipedia page to have the accurate number of children Mr Stanhope has? Four or five? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BQ-CNI (talk • contribs) 22:43, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I've changed it to 4 as per the reference. There were some salacious edits by an IP in 2016 which is where I think this came from. --Canley (talk) 23:38, 22 October 2018 (UTC)