I’ve compiled Morgan Tsvangirai’s campaign from June 2nd until yesterday, with information on campaign stops, detentions by police, vehicle impoundments, and references to all information from on-line news sources. I’ll update it as required. The tour will take you round parts of Zimbabwe he has covered in the last two weeks. NOW UPDATED – JUNE [...]
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Ironic, isn’t it, that at a time when the major parties are on the brink of record campaign spending (that’s largely union money, business money, taxpayer money, and anonymously donated money) and are doing all in their power to persuade us that they represent the very soul of the Australian people, their members have been [...]
Tags:kmz file·The Parties
Last week I was very critical of a Parliamentary debate (purportedly on a “Matter of Public Importance”) that was, not unusually, devoid of new thinking and dominated by reverberating party taunts. Today was different. There were words of wisdom, passion and insight from members of both parties. Why? Because they were uttered in the valedictory [...]
Tags:kmz file·Parliament
Setting aside a day’s leave for the distinctly apolitical task of heavy manual labour in my garden gave me the opportunity of listening uninterrupted to the day’s proceedings in Parliament, courtesy of ABC News Radio. But it wasn’t Question Time and its usual antics that struck me most forcefully.
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Readers can listen to, download the podcast, or read the transcript of my ABC Radio National Perspective piece, broadcast earlier this evening, here. We need to try new and more imaginative ways to reduce the levels of preventable chronic disease.
Australia’s electoral divisions, or constituencies, have been devised and revised to ensure that they are not “gerry-mandered”, and that they comply with Constitutional and legal requirements regarding size. Unfortunately, they are not always very easy to identify with, as they may include
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Both parties seem to be in thrall of emissions-trading as the principal mechanism for controlling Australia’s greenhouse emissions. In Carbon Trading – The Chinese Report Card, published today in Online Opinion (originally appeared in the Courier Mail, August 29), I examine monitoring data from the world’s most expensive ($1 billion),
Tags:Environment·kmz file
Sore knuckles aside, there’s a lot to be said for door-knocking. Number one, by a long way, is the pleasure of meeting such a fascinating range of people, some in the mood to chat, others not, but almost without exception polite and appreciative that a candidate
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In Tasmania for the annual conference of the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association where I presented a paper by our QUT research group. At this conference I was reminded, for the umpteenth time, of the paramount importance of preventative and
If the PM can have his say on local Government, I’ll have mine on a State issue. There’s an argument for a new State High School in the western part of Ryan other than growth in and around Karana Downs. In essence, the State has given up trying to provide public secondary education