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I am not really that surprised that intelligent Labor Party members in middle class Canberra dumped on party hacks and went for someone with intelligence and personality. The seat of Fraser is a reasonably safe Labor seat so Andrew should be heading into politics. The only negative I can see is a loss for applied economic [...] The CPRS bill has been defeated through the joint actions of the Coalition and the Greens in the Senate. Labor will present the bill for a third time rather than seek a double dissolution of both houses of Parliament. My preference would have been to get this highly imperfect bill passed but it has been defeated. It is now difficult to see how, without totally destroying its intent, a reformulated bill will ever get through. Putting the issue before the people is the best way out of this mess. Although it won’t be easy, Labor should negotiate a tougher bill which forgoes at least some of the outrageously counterproductive concessions to the electricity sector and which leaves open the possibility of charging for emissions in the agricultural sector – hopefully this should attract the 5 Green votes in the Senate. If this attempt is rejected and fails then a double dissolution should be sought. Continue reading CPRS defeated – where to now? It is unclear whether (changed from, ‘likely that’) Kevin Rudd attempted to do a favour for a mate and lied to parliament about that. It is certain that Wayne Swan attempted the favour and took personal interest in seeing that the favour worked – Swan should resign and be replaced by Lindsay Tanner who will make a better Treasurer. The pair are now desparately [...] 94.6% of Australian workers retain their jobs a year after the world experiences the worst financial crisis for 80 years. This compares with 95.8% prior to the crisis when the economic ravages of the Howard Coalition Government were still bearing on the down-trodden Australian working class. This disasterous state of affairs has led the reformist Rudd Government [...] The Herald /Neilson poll shows promising news for the Coalition. The Coalition is – as it should be – making significant inroads against Rudd and Labor. A 5% swing to The Coalition since March and back to the narrow margin of the 2007 poll. Labor leads the Coalition by 53% to 47%, down from the 58-42 gap in the previous poll. The Coalition made up 9 points in the crucial primary vote. Labor’s primary vote fell 3 points to 44% while support for the Coalition rose 6 to 43%. Continue reading Good poll news for Coalition |
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