Greens hand government to Labor

by Crispin Hull on July 24, 2010

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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Preference system’s subtle policy effect

by Crispin Hull on July 17, 2010

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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A flight over the inland sea

by Crispin Hull on July 14, 2010

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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Taxing time for Apple users

by Crispin Hull on July 10, 2010

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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People do no want a big Canberra

by Crispin Hull on July 3, 2010

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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Left powerless to quit unwinnable war

by Crispin Hull on June 26, 2010

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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Rudd making Abbott more prime ministerial

by Crispin Hull on June 19, 2010

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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Obama’s big chance on oil and Mid-East

by Crispin Hull on June 12, 2010

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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Conditioning people to costly car servicing

by Crispin Hull on June 5, 2010

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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Rudd deserves mining flak

by Crispin Hull on May 29, 2010

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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