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Delmer from Ohio may be interested to know the new Premier of New South Wales grew up in the Buckeye State. According to a limited entry on Wikipedia, Kristina Keneally was born Kristina Kerscher in the United States in 1969 to an American father and an Australian mother. She grew…
December 3 2009, 4:57am | Comments »
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I’ve just finished reading “Billy Hughes” by Aneurin Hughes (not related). The sub-title is “Prime Minister and controversial founding father of the Australian Labor Party”. It’s not a full biography and tries to paint a portrait of the man, rather than the politician. But Hughes lived for politics, becoming the…
November 21 2009, 8:42pm | Comments »
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There aren’t many current politicians who impress me with their ideas. Some of today’s crop are canny political operators and media manipulators, but there are few who strike me as “ideas men” who want to make a difference. The criteria I used in selecting the unlikely trio of Brendon Grylls,…
July 25 2009, 12:06am | Comments »
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