… actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them
August 26, 2010
There’ve been lots of explanations for the election result on Saturday. Here’s another one:
The IPA’s Julie Novak prepared it. Sure – there’s lots of reasons people vote the way they do – but maybe – just maybe – if you work for the government you’re more likely to vote Labor.
Today everyone’s talking about Tony Abbott’s policy costings. Just shows we need an independent Parliamentary Budget Office! I said it on Monday’s 7:30 Report, and here’s the IPA’s Tim Wilson on Lateline last night. Why shouldn’t we trust Treasury? All their mistakes! Read what the IPA thinks of Treasury’s failures here and here and here.
If you missed the ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday it’s here. It’s a free market perspective on the GFC! (How did it get to air??) Look out for Peter Schiff, the guy who predicted the GFC and who we told you about a few weeks ago.
If you’ve got an iPhone, you’re bored with Angry Birds, and you want to know more about climate change, have a look at the ‘Our Climate‘ app.
Here’s something moderately scary from America. In Philadelphia you need a business licence to blog. And here’s something really scary from America – via the National Review Online. This is from the editorial in Saturday’s New York Times – ‘But many of Mr DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.‘ Think about it for a moment and what it means. Here’s the original editorial.
If you’re in the mood for some thoughtful reading consider Ken Minogue’s gracious 3500 word analysis of democracy and modern morality from The New Criterion. Everybody’s talking about it.
On Friday in The AFR, I said that we should be afraid of politicians’ visions. In Saturday’s Herald Sun, Alan Moran argued that housing was forgotten in the election. Julie Novak said that the mining sector was left in the lurch in The Courier Mail on Monday. And Chris Berg in The Drum has been writing about Julia Gillard and the evils of compulsory voting.
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