We may all have to wait until 1 July before we're able to know which way the health insurance system will turn. Away from private health cover and onto the public system, or will more than 400,000 Australians currently holding private health cover decide to stick with it?
GASP!! Such extravagant waste of a renewable resource!
It was another Nelson who said "Desperate affairs require desperate measures". Tonight in the House of Representatives, Brendan Nelson realised the former and employed the latter
Just about every politically aware Oz blogger has expressed their impressions of LAST NIGHTS budget delivery, so I thought I may as well do likewise.
Beaks operating under the British judicial court system have adopted new dress.
As for looking 'star-trekkish', the comparison is so far distant from any Star Trek uniform, Starfleet or otherwise, a warp 9 starship would be needed to bridge the gap. Looks smart, I must admit, but just a tad too much like a long smoking jacket or dressing gown.
A man ahead of his time, is how those right-wing ideologues far from these shores undoubtedly think of Timmy Blair. It seems that Timmy may well have taken faint praise too much to heart. Evidence his 'blog' entry dated Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 9.50pm
If not concerned for the performance of his party on Budget day, why call a ‘doorstop’ knowing full well that as the former Treasurer over more than a decade, journalists would flock like seagulls to a discarded chip wrapper?
Here's something of a philosophical question. Perhaps it's scientific?
The very first thought which popped to mind as I heard this story on the way home was, "Was her head-hunting purposely planned?"
Races 2 and 3
Apart from Mark Skaife living down to my expectations on the opening lap of race 2, ending his weekend against a concrete wall, the two races today were pretty much staid, tactical affairs.
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