Post-electoral musical chairsTue, 31/08/10 - patrickcallioni
It is now more than a week since the election and negotiations proceed to determine who will form the next government; noting that we already have a government, albeit in caretaker mode. Incumbency could become very significant in this complicated post-electoral game of musical chairs, as Jack Waterford explained in The Canberra Times recently. Waterford's point was that if Julia Gillard were to go to Government House now and sought a fresh appointment as PM, she would get it, on the grounds that until a no-confidence vote in the House of Representatives went against her, she is entitled to assume that she the confidence of the House. A no-confidence motion would require either 75 votes to be successful, because the Speaker does not vote, by tradition, unless there is a tied vote – though interestingly in the ACT the Green Speaker of the Legislative Assembly has been known to temporarily give up his post as Speaker so that he can cast a partisan vote. Reflections on the election campaignSun, 22/08/10 - patrickcallioni
If we want to move away from the politics of the lowest common denominator, let us start from the right place. The Coalition and BroadbandMon, 16/08/10 - patrickcallioni
Australia needs a real plan to invest in a National Broadband Network (NBN) with fibre optic and wireless phases. Journalists and historySun, 08/08/10 - patrickcallioni
At election time, do not rely on anything you may read in newspapers like The Daily Telegraph and, increasingly, The Australian – you will almost certainly be misled, either through journalistic ignorance or by clever manipulation. Open letter to the G20 leadersSun, 27/06/10 - patrickcallioni
Market Fever Index 2010 – and some thoughts on the mining industryTue, 04/05/10 - patrickcallioni
Where is the evidence that what is being proposed in response to the Henry Review is going to damage the industry? So far, I have seen none. |