Month: August 2010

Steve Fielding wants a new election too

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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.

7-point plan submitted: where to now? #auswaits

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I’m vastly amused by how outraged some of the punditocracy appear to be that the markets didn’t run around like headless chooks on Monday, after the pundits predicted that they would and should take a tumble because of the dreaded “instability” of such a terribly unprecedented thing as a hung parliament. Dearie me.

Maybe it’s an omen?

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This morning we were awoken at the ungodly hour of 6.15 by the shrieking of a rabbit (rather like a smoke detector in pitch, sound and volume) but not as pleasant for the rabbit obviously. If you didn’t know rabbits… Read More ›