Question: What do you get when you pay a post-materialist doctor 50% more? The answer, if you’re Peter Beattie would appear to be: Two-thirds the person-hours for the same money.
In a move designed to encourage more doctors into the Queensland hospital system Peter Beattie increased the income of some […] Continue Reading…
March 14, 2006 | Graham
Two-thirds of three-fifths?
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March 13, 2006 | Graham
Memo to Rann – accentuate the positive!
The ALP election campaign has misfired badly. It is tending to lower the standing of Premier Rann, leaves Rob Kerin almost unscathed and is guaranteeing a good vote for independents and minor parties in the Legislative Council. At the same time the Liberals have yet to put a proposition […] Continue Reading…
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March 08, 2006 | Graham
Beattie privatises hospital emergency ward
In the 1995 state election one of the issues that brought the Goss government undone was their false claim that the Coalition was going to privatise the hospital system. The blatant untruthfulness of the accusation led to the Courier Mail labelling it “grubby”, and it was the final turning […] Continue Reading…
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March 06, 2006 | Graham
Has Howard made us more left-wing?
University of Sydney researchers Gabrielle Meagher and Shaun Wilson have found that as a society Australia has become more left-wing. Comment seems to assume that this has happened despite Howard, but could it be because of him?
My thesis isn’t that this is a reaction to Howard’s positions on issues, […] Continue Reading…
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March 05, 2006 | Graham
Gaven it away
Polling in The Sunday Mail today shows the sort of problem that the Queensland coalition has in winning seats from Peter Beattie. It was done in the seat of Gaven where the sitting member, Robert Poole, has been forced to resign because he is spending most of his time […] Continue Reading…
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March 03, 2006 | Graham
More can be less – Rann’s popularity his only weakness
Most Australians completely despise their leaders, but not South Australians. They mightn’t love them, but they’ll give them a pat in passing. Rann and Kerin are two blokes who are seen as decent, even honest. One is a capable leader, while the other is just too “nice”. As a […] Continue Reading…
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February 28, 2006 | Graham
Yudhoyono 180 degrees wrong
Indonesian PM Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is 180 degrees wrong when he says that the solution to the fight against terror is to be more tolerant of Muslim sensitivities.
He couches this in terms of the argument about the Mohammed cartoons. He says that it is important to win the battle […] Continue Reading…
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February 27, 2006 | Graham
Dragon’s teeth gambit leads to detente in Iraq
The bombing of the golden-domed Askariya Shrine in Samarra was blamed on Al Qaeda and led to an outbreak of sectarian violence that so far has killed at least 227 and raised the possibility that Iraq might slip into civil war. But it may have had a perverse effect […] Continue Reading…
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February 27, 2006 | Graham
Howard didn’t know
Originally posted with apologies to Banjo Paterson and courtesy of that great contributor to traditional poetry – Anon. But see comment below. Attribution and copyright apparently belong to Mike Carlton.
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him at […] Continue Reading…
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February 23, 2006 | Graham
Tell us what you really think
Four days ago I was critical of a Saulwick poll which had been interpreted by the SMH to suggest that we’ve become a meaner society under John Howard. Today there are two reports of polls which put a different light on this interpretation.
The first is also reported in the […] Continue Reading…
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