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Current Affairs
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Voting So Far
At 8.15 SA time, Labor holds Eden-Monaro. Not a good sign. Since 1972 Eden-Monaro has gone to whichever party eventually formed the government. Maybe it is time for a change. I was wrong about Melbourne. The Greens will…
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Just Back
… from two hours of handing out how to vote cards in Kingscote (Mayo, SA). Two things of interest. 1. Someone who thought I was offering her a Labor card said ‘Not without Kevin.’ I wasn’t…
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China, Warming and Renewable Energy.
From James Delingpole at the UK Telegraph: One of the great lies told us by our political leaders in order to persuade us to accept their swingeing and pointless green taxes and their economically suicidal, environmentally…
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Nasty Canadians Don’t Want Illegal Immigrants
If the Tamil asylum seekers thought they were going to have an easier run in Canada than in Australia, they may be in for an unpleasant surprise. A poll of 1500 Canadians reported in the Toronto…
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Inevitable Election Prediction
All right, so I may be embarrassed tomorrow, but here goes. In primary votes, the Liberals are way ahead. But with preference deals counted, most polls show them at 48% and Labor at 52%. Tim Blair has…
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ABC News Strident and Negative
According to the ABC: In the final hours of the 2010 election campaign, both parties have ramped up the negative rhetoric as they scramble to win over voters in what is tipped to be the closest election…
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Gillard Strident and Negative – ABC News
No, Julia Gillard being strident and negative is not news. What is news is that an ABC correspondent says she is. Even Julia seems to be admitting that she is now running a wholly negative campaign. She…
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Hidden Costs in NBN Take-up
I noted a couple of posts ago that on present costing, the price of the National Broadband Netwreck would be about $6000 per Australian household. Everyone will pay for that through increased taxes, whether they use it…
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Know What You’re Voting For
A few people I have spoken to over the last couple of weeks, people who are otherwise intelligent as far as I can tell, have told me they intend to vote for the Greens in the…
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More on the NBN
This is honestly one of the funniest things I have ever seen:
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The Age
There was a time when, even though left leaning, The Age stood for clear reporting, and the best of liberal values, in the sense of being fair and open. That has not been the case for many years. The…
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Undeniable Climate Change Denied
A big group of scientists whose funding depends on continuing to scare people about climate change have produced a report saying climate change is scary. This is news, apparently. Older news is that Phil Jones still can’t…
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Labor’s Report Card
Based on comments by Engineer and Mick Davis on Andrew Bolt’s blog. Labor’s Report Card 20/20 Summit – FAIL Millions of dollars of your money wasted. No ideas from summit implemented. Aboriginal Housing – FAIL $300 million of your money spent, no houses…
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The Generation That Failed
The early years of the coming decade will be the last few years of life for many Anglican parishes in the Western world. Those parishes, some supported by legacies or property income, are home to the last…
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A Little Bit More on Gay ‘Marriage’
Abraham Lincoln once asked how many legs a dog has if we call a tail a leg. The answer, he said, is four: calling a tail a leg does not make it so. We chuckle and…