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Rudd and Abbott were never good enough to become Prime Minister. Australians are badly informed by broadcast media. This blog searches for ways to get information on how we are governed, and how we might be governed.

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26 July 2009

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Not bouncing, crumbling One of the animating fantasies of the Liberal Party over the last twenty years is the one-term dream. This is the id...

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24 July 2009

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An immature culture In today's AFR (click here but you'll need to be a subscriber), Stephen Kirchner says that we'd be more mat...

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18 July 2009

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End of the line Here is a prime example of why a return to "old-fashioned journalism" (i.e. quoting from press releases and inter...

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05 July 2009

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Sloppy research is unhealthy I remember when libertarians had initiative in questioning the basic assumptions of how we govern ourselves, an...

04 July 2009

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Safety in numbers In the US Senate, the Democrats can claim sixty of that body's hundred members. In theory this enables them to votes a...

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02 July 2009

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Night thoughts from John Hartigan I read the John Hartigan transcript . Two things struck me: it was exactly like John B. Fairfax's back...

28 June 2009

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Vactoria Sooner or later the Liberals will have to replace many of the MPs who survived the 2007 election with those who have something to c...

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Andrew Elder: Andrew Elder was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia, starting off as a libertarian-punk, then as a moderate seeking to preserve rights and freedoms in a changing world; now he scorns the know-nothing Liberals, doesn't trust the left and disdains the other interest groups that flit around Australian politics, and does so publicly yet obscurely.

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