Entries Tagged as 'politics'

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Election roundup

Prom­ise that this will be the last time I post on mat­ters elect­oral for a long while. Hmm… might turn out to be non-core. Any­way. There has been much frothi­ness in pre­dic­tions of a Labor land­slide. Many poll­bludgers put it at 90+ seats in the new par­lia­ment. My own out-of-the-arse guess­tim­a­tion is 88  –  an aus­pi­cious num­ber for the Sinophile […]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Hit for six

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Monday, October 22nd, 2007

A not-so-great economic debate

A most inter­est­ing thing happened in the “Great” Debate between Howard and Rudd. They both tripped over them­selves to lay claim to being the nat­ural suc­cessors of the Hawke/Keating leg­acy of reform and man­age­ment, though Howard char­ac­ter­ist­ic­ally tried to have a two-bob each way by con­tinu­ing to excor­i­ate them for “the 17 per cent interest rates […]

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Liberal leadership

Given that the fed­eral gov­ern­ment basic­ally is John Howard, it is only fair that the Aus­tralian people get to deliver the killer blow. Downer, Turn­bull, et al. please step back. Rain Man movie The Incred­ible Hulk trailer The Abom­in­able Dr. Phibes divx Tomor­row Never Dies film Crank: High Voltage movie download

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Unbiasedness

To demon­strate that it is not affected by polit­ical wheeling-and-dealing, a hypo­thet­ical cent­ral bank may raise interest rates (sev­eral times) in an elec­tion year out of sheer bloody-mindedness to demon­strate that it is “inde­pend­ent”. Sim­il­arly, a hypo­thet­ical pub­lic broad­caster may go extra hard on the oppos­i­tion party in an attempt to demon­strate that it is not affected […]