An article today in The Age quotes Julia Gillard as saying that election promises may be broken, given the current parliamentary arrangements here in Australia.
I can’t be the only person who finds the idea of government-by-promise underwhelming, but oppositions of all persuasions never tire of the rhetorical flourish of “broken promises” and the causally-related [...]
I thought this article from the International Herald Tribune was interesting, even if its proposal seemed rather unlikely, at least in the current climate. But it seems substantially more interesting when you realise that it’s written by Muammar Qaddafi, i.e. Lybia’s Colonel Gaddafi.
Fantastic article in The Age by Waleed Aly, mirroring some thoughts I’ve been having as Zim slides into 9+ digit inflation and a cholera epidemic. If Iraq justified a military intervention, why not Zimbabwe? Oh that’s right, no oil.
Candidates in the mayoral elections publish charts of how they’d like you to distribute their preferences, and these charts make interesting reading. I wondered – who’s the most popular candidate among the candidates?
Totalling up the preference votes democratically, you get this:
52 Singer
56 Fowles
56 Ng
58 Bandt
63 McMullin
65 Morgan
67 Crawford
69 Columb
72 Doyle
80 Roberts
88 Toscano
Singer is the most popular among the candidates, Toscano, a “radical activist(s) who have over [...]
