Apparently the Liberal Party did a poll of federal voting intentions in Queensland in which they asked about the standing of State Leader Bruce Flegg. Today’s Courier Mail reveals that Flegg has a net negative 30 something approval rating (calculated by sub-tracting those who disapprove from those who approve). […] Continue Reading…

Who would have thought that the climate models used as the basis of IPCC greenhouse forecasts would violate 72 of 89 principles of forecasting. That’s the claim from forecastingprinciples.com a site run by J. Scott Armstrong,
Professor of Marketing at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He and Kesten […] Continue Reading…

Peter Beattie’s non-resignation is an interesting gambit. Tony Blair made himself a lame duck twelve or so months ago when he said he would resign in this term of the British Parliament. John Howard will obviously resign some time, unless of course he loses his seat, but he has […] Continue Reading…

It’s old news (yesterday’s) but I should note that the New South Wales Liberal Party yesterday suspended a former President for giving an interview to the media. Michael Osborne was president for three years between 1997 and 2000, but he’s been stripped of all rights for two years. His […] Continue Reading…

Spot the odd man ought – Dean Mighel, Joe McDonald, Graham Young.
Not too difficult. The first two are union leaders who have been sprung threatening and standing-over employers, the second is Chief Editor and founder of innovative online journal On Line Opinion which last year was Australia’s most popular […] Continue Reading…

Imagine that the rampant paedophilia shown to exist in Aboriginal Communities had been found in, say, a set of church run private schools, what would the outcome be? Would we be talking about how to deal gently with the church organisation respecting its traditional ways and property rights? Would […] Continue Reading…

Well, I might have been giving Optus incidental plaudits over the PM’s broadband roll-out, but their telephony service still stinks. It took them until Tuesday last week to fix the phone line. The fault was all their’s. (Read the previous posts here and here).
That means it took them 11 […] Continue Reading…

John Howard’s just delivered bandwidth hogs the best reason to vote Liberal. His broadband proposal is technologically better than Labor’s and is a third the cost. He’s also delivered a practical demonstration of the difference between Liberal and Labor in government.
No wonder Labor is pointing the finger at the […] Continue Reading…

There is nothing wrong with the ACTU manual and method for identifying and persuading uncommitted voters. It’s just old-fashioned door knocking. What’s more, in 1996 the Liberal Party did something similar.
In Queensland we telephoned thousands of voters in marginal seats asking how they would vote and what issues […] Continue Reading…