NEVER let the facts get in the way of a non-story. For the past few elections I have done an analysis of preference flows from the previous election. [click to continue…]
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EVERY electoral system has its faults and its strengths. And every electoral system has its influence on the way politicians create policy. [click to continue…]
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FLYING creatures are drawn by an immense natural spectacle which happens only one or twice a generation — the gradual filling of Lake Eyre. Pictures are here [click to continue…]
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CALLING all Apple Mac users. Roll up now for your huge discount on Microsoft Windows 7 for Mac, courtesy of Australian taxpayers. [click to continue…]
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PRIME Minister Julia Gillard gets it, but ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope does not: a large majority of Australians are unhappy with the prospect of high population growth. [click to continue…]
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WE NOW have a Prime Minister and Defence Minister from the left of the Labor Party part of whose heritage is the active and successful protests against the Vietnam war in the late 1960s and early 1970s – a tragic, futile unwinnable war. [click to continue…]
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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd a should be a bit careful telling the Australian people that if the polls are replicated on election day Tony Abbott would be PM. [click to continue…]
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IHE oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the violent Israeli commandeering of Gaza-bound relief ship in international waters –usually called piracy — are seemingly unrelated.
But they could present an opportunity to President Barack Obama, and to the US in general, to change direction. It’s all about oil. [click to continue…]
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IT MUST be difficult to be in the car business these days. The latest Morgan poll out this week shows a 10 per cent fall in intention to buy a new car in the next year. And the first mass-produced fully electric car was launched on to the Australian market. [click to continue…]
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KEVIN Rudd deserves all the flak he is getting from the miners over the resource tax and from people concerned about the climate over his junking of the emissions trading scheme. [click to continue…]
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