Tag: Kristina Keneally
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Useful delusions
Two curious, abstract figments of the political imagination, contracts and mandates lay the mental groundwork for whatever contrived political debates might lie ahead. In this case, I speak of the unfortunate politics of New South Wales (where I don’t live). On one hand, Barry O’Farrell has signed a “contract” with voters, promising to resign if…
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Taxing Tony
First, the following disclaimer: hypocrisy doesn’t make you wrong (as I’ve [intlink id=”833″ type=”post”]mentioned before[/intlink]). I cannot therefore accuse Tony Abbott of necessarily having the wrong idea about Gillard’s flood levy, but I can say that the man is a weasely hypocrite: Abbott himself tried (during the last election campaign) to draw a ludicrous distinction between…