Just a quick blog today. According to my car mechanic, Labor lost because of MyKi, tram conductors, desalination, Kennett and Brumby. Let me explain. According to my car mechanic, MyKi became emblematic of Labor’s inability to get public transport in order. Behind MyKi was a host of other issues, like safety on trains, over crowding [...]
I’m inclined to agree with Peter Brent and Phil Quin when looking at the 2010 Victorian election: Brent: It looks like the Brumby government is gone and the Reasons are arriving. The Reasons follow the facts. Everybody has one. Transport, arrogance and so on. The usual ones and some others. There’ll be nagging and scolding [...]
There are many reasons that I’m voting Labor this Saturday, but they ultimately boil down to the fact that Labor is the only party that will take real action on climate change, rather than spouting slogans (Greens Party) or denying there’s a problem (Liberal Party). Labor’s climate change policies could be better – I’ve committed [...]
Brian Walters SC, the Greens Party candidate for Melbourne has admitted that he distributed a leaflet that incorrectly claimed Labor accepted donations for tobacco companies. Labor has banned donations from tobacco companies since 2004. Walters blamed the leaflet on an unnamed “volunteer researcher”. The Greens will stop distributing an election flyer that incorrectly stated the [...]
At the same time that I got my hands on Confessions of a Faceless Man, I also got a copy of the latest soul-searching Labor “where are we heading” book, called “All That’s Left: What Labor Should Stand For” edited by Tim Soutphommasane and Nick Dyrenfurth. This book deserves somewhat more than the quick and [...]
Yesterday, the Greens Party journal The Age reported that a party candidate in Gippsland Cheryl Wragg had publicly disagreed with Greg Barber’s energy policy: Ms Wragg, who calls herself an ”industrial Green”, suggested that Mr Barber’s stance was pitched at inner-city voters and did not reflect the views of people in central Gippsland. ”The Greens [...]
The latest reports of what could be a massive international incident: Fires were burning out of control and spreading after a South Korean island was hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea on Tuesday, a witness said. YTN television quoted a witness as saying that many of the North Korean shells had [...]
Jeremy Sear, a lawyer and pro-Greens blogger has stood up for the Greens Party preferencing an anti-Muslim, anti-Choice independent candidate in Essendon. “Sometimes, on balance, Labor is even worse than a slightly anti-choice independent.” According to Sear, is it better for the Greens Party to preference the anti-Choice candidate in question – Paul Guiliano – [...]
The rising Australian dollar has had a bigger impact on our economy than an $85 per tonne carbon price. A new Access Economics report says: Exchange rate movements and the introduction of a carbon price are similar to the extent that both have comparable economic impacts and firms are able to adapt to the new [...]
The Federal Government has announced that it will no longer support the Australian Services Union’s test case to get equal pay for women. The excuse for this backdown is that funding the decision would impact the Federal Budget bottom line: THE federal government has put the budget surplus ahead of equal pay for women, telling [...]
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