Politician parents
Image credit. Check out this intriguing article from The Economist – “The Gruffulo Years: A striking number of Britain’s senior politicians have young children. That is a good thing”. The world changes much more rapidly once its leaders are personally impacted by the same ‘small things’ the rest of us have long been struggling with. [...]
Femmostroppo Reader January 22, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader – an even broader mix than usual this time around. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
What would Anna Bligh do?
Anna Bligh, the Queensland Premier seems to finally be living up to the potential she showed when she first became Premier. Her leadership during this flood crisis matches much of what I have heard from those who have worked for and with her during her time as Premier – that she is calm, intelligent, respectful, decent, personable, sensible and brave – but the reality of her style never previously translated to her broader public image. Some of the criticism of Bligh applies across the board to politicians generally, who these days seem to be over-prepared for public appearances to the point of coming across as robotic and false.
Quote of the Day: martial language vs eliminationist rhetoric
The problem is not martial language. The problem is the discussion of martial solutions, mentioned as actual policy options. That’s what “eliminationist rhetoric” means, you weaseling fucks.
ADDENDUM: Sarah Palin fans the heated rhetoric flames by playing the victim card and describing criticism as a “blood libel”. Seriously.
Abbott Watch: Scumbaggery alert
Sure, that’s the most important thing right now, Tony. Remind everybody about the terrible no good horrible very very bad NBN.
Ghoul.
Femmostroppo Reader November 9, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
Newspoll: new election would mean another hung parliament
So is it at all possible that all the frenzied yammering from the “we wuz robbed” CLN diehards about the desperate need for a new election ASAP might just STFU for a while now?
The Australian media throwing a collective tanty at prospect of an Abbott-less Lodge
A disgraceful sight it is too. A left-wing media is it? Only to someone wearing blinkers. Thank goodness for bloggers!
Are we there yet?
They reckon something might happen today.
Update: Katter has gone with the Coalition – it’s now 74 seats each.
Update: Windsor and Oakeshott have gone with Labor – we have a Gillard government.
Quicklink: Antony Green on constitutional realities
…”with neither side having gained a majority in their own right, the murky world of government formation under our system of unwritten constitutional conventions has been exposed to the light”…
How to wrangle a new paradigm
I’m particularly intrigued by the growing hysteria echoing out of Murdoch’s media outlets. Dealing with independents who aren’t pavlovian in their response to the media’s narratives must come as something of a shock.
Steve Fielding wants a new election too
Of course he’s not acknowledging that potentially providing multiple Double-Dissolution triggers over the next 9 months is blatantly in his self-interest – he’s just lost his Senate seat in the last election – under the reduced quota in place in DD elections, he stands a good chance of winning it back.
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