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I need to have a haircut.
Apparently John Howard keeps saying that he didn't win the last federal election off the back of the Tampa asylum seeker issue... well if you can call boats sinking with heaps of refugees on board an 'issue'.
Didn't the GST give the ALP a big lead in the polls? I seem to remember something about how there was a bit of a turnaround after Tampa... well all those Christmas Islander rednecks yelling about how all the refugees were throwing their babies overboard.
*heh* Now its amusing when you hear a supposed 'expert' talking about how "the politicians" always use these new-fangled techniques like 'polling' to sound out the feelings of the electorate. Especially when he claims that he never uses polling, its better to get an understanding of the "gut feeling" of the public (one wonders how this is humanly possible? perhaps he is psychic) Whee...
It would be interesting to know what the actual circumstances behind the latest airline crash in NYC really was.
The UN has marked out a 5-point plan for Afghanistan... based on ideas "widely discussed" by Afghans themselves (one assumes these are the Afghans who wish to stay alive as opposed to being bombed off the map by the US).
*laugh*
Isn't it amusing how the latest IVF treatment bill currently being debated (as a response to the Victorian act which disallows homosexual women or women who aren't currently in a heterosexual relationship from seeking treatment for infertility). Weird... although having not been placed in the situation of wanting to have children and not being able to its a little hard for me to understand.
However what may make the whole thing academic is the bill which is currently being debated TODAY in Australian house of representatives (parliment, in other words) is the proposal to expand the bill of equal rights to include homosexuals of all persuasions *crosses fingers*
I really hope that goes through; it would mean a lot less trouble about these things. :)
CHOGM is going to be held on the sunshine coast as a "scaled down" version of the fully-fledged rort, which means that Peter Beattie will have lots of egg on his face currently.
Apparently John Howard keeps saying that he didn't win the last federal election off the back of the Tampa asylum seeker issue... well if you can call boats sinking with heaps of refugees on board an 'issue'.
Didn't the GST give the ALP a big lead in the polls? I seem to remember something about how there was a bit of a turnaround after Tampa... well all those Christmas Islander rednecks yelling about how all the refugees were throwing their babies overboard.
*heh* Now its amusing when you hear a supposed 'expert' talking about how "the politicians" always use these new-fangled techniques like 'polling' to sound out the feelings of the electorate. Especially when he claims that he never uses polling, its better to get an understanding of the "gut feeling" of the public (one wonders how this is humanly possible? perhaps he is psychic) Whee...
It would be interesting to know what the actual circumstances behind the latest airline crash in NYC really was.
The UN has marked out a 5-point plan for Afghanistan... based on ideas "widely discussed" by Afghans themselves (one assumes these are the Afghans who wish to stay alive as opposed to being bombed off the map by the US).
*laugh*
Isn't it amusing how the latest IVF treatment bill currently being debated (as a response to the Victorian act which disallows homosexual women or women who aren't currently in a heterosexual relationship from seeking treatment for infertility). Weird... although having not been placed in the situation of wanting to have children and not being able to its a little hard for me to understand.
However what may make the whole thing academic is the bill which is currently being debated TODAY in Australian house of representatives (parliment, in other words) is the proposal to expand the bill of equal rights to include homosexuals of all persuasions *crosses fingers*
I really hope that goes through; it would mean a lot less trouble about these things. :)
CHOGM is going to be held on the sunshine coast as a "scaled down" version of the fully-fledged rort, which means that Peter Beattie will have lots of egg on his face currently.
