Monday, October 01, 2007

Election date stall

Why are we waiting…? We Australians I mean, waiting with increasing impatience for an election date to be called. I guess no electoral system is perfect, but the Aussie one would be improved dramatically with fixed term elections.

Latest polling has continued the bad news for the Howard government. Taken over the weekend, exclusively for Murdoch’s News Limited, the results continue to confirm a likely change of government in Australia. More…

2 comments:

enigma4ever said...

I thought for sure you all had fixed dates?? wow...learn something everytime I come here...

( about attacks and censorhsip in the States...it is a sad time up here...Sally Fields the Flying Nun gets Censored at the Emmies for saying Godamned War-and mentioning the war...and the Dixie Chicks go through hell for speaking the truth about George..and women bloggers are dropping like flys up here- I can't believe I got death threats this weekend for WHAT I write...geez...

BTW ....I think I remember seeing you were in publishing...I hate to ask this...But I am thinking of publishing my book either downunder or in Canada...if you have any thoughts on this...I would appreciate your wisdom....enigma4ever@earthlink.net.....

keep writing....I lurk here quite a bit- it is a great blog...

Cartledge said...

Everyone wants to be a critic. The thing is, if you talk about emotional social issues you are open to emotional attacks.
I'm not a joiner, but I liked the idea of a blog coalition. I can understand there are many out there who fear individual opposition to their beliefs, an organised opposition must seem very scary :)
But there isn't much point saying something unless it touches the reader one way or the other.