Like everyone else who runs a motor car in Australia, I’m feeling the pinch of paying over 110 cents a litre for petrol. Prices have been higher than that and the outlook is for continued upwards pressure. I accept there’s nothing the Federal Government can do about world oil prices, but they can offer some [...]
Election outcome
My crystal ball was working in terms of predicting the Federal Election outcome. The analysis will now start, but I wonder how frank the Labor Party will be in assessing Mark Latham’s lacklustre performance. As I observed previously, he messed up the tax policy and made a political blunder on forest policy. Latham doesn’t care [...]
Election forecast
I’m still tipping a Coalition victory in the Federal Election. I think a few seats will change hands in both directions for mainly local reasons. I don’t expect there will be a consistent nationwide swing, which is what Labor needs to win. I think the Greens will replace the Democrats as the minor party with [...]
Labor’s health policy
At first glance I was impressed by Labor’s policy to guarantee immediate free hospital care, when required, for people aged over 75. This was good news for oldies, of course, but potentially good news for younger people paying private health insurance. The assumption was that older folk would no longer need private health insurance, thereby [...]
The right to vote
The Federal Government passed legislation a month ago that bars prisoners from voting if they’re serving terms of three years or more. The restriction previously applied to terms of five years. The rationale was that prisoners are not “fit and proper” to vote. I find this rather extraordinary. Forget about the question of whether prisoners [...]
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