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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Trawling the AEC
Two things worth pondering today. Firstly, Werriwa, the seat held by non-Labor parties for just three years since 1914. The Australian Electoral Commission’s divisional results for 2004 had Mark Latham polling 54% of the primary vote at the last election, with a 2.3% positive swing. The Liberal Michael Medway got 35% of the primary, and a 1.8% swing. The difference was made up of Democrats, Greens, and spoiler candidate Sam Bargshoon, of Orange Grove fame, who got 5% of the vote, and his deposit returned. However Bargshoon’s votes seem to have matched the One Nation and Hanson vote from 2001,
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Gillard: wait and see. AAP: dead and buried.
The extent to which journalists twist the words of people in public life to fit the story they would like to tell truly does amaze me. Here is Julia Gillard yesterday evening on the future of the Labor’s controversial Medicare Gold policy:
“We don’t know where the budget is going to be in three years time and neither does the government,” she told reporters in Melbourne following a speech late on Thursday.
“But the policy underpinnings of Medicare Gold, to strive for one level of government to deal with the aged care and hospital needs of older Australians to end
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Myth, propaganda and disaster in Australia.
ohn Pilger pulls no punches in an opinion piece published today at ZNet:
“Some of the most prominent journalists form an adoring court for a prime minister who has out-Blaired Blair in his rank deceptions and is out-Bushing his mentor in Washington in his demonstrable contempt for human rights. Under Howard and Ruddock, Australia has built its own Gulag in the Pacific, imprisoning behind razor wire Iraqis and others fleeing dictatorships.”
A Guardian review of the play which in part appears to have sparked the piece is here. It is now showing in Sydney.
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