Category Archives: Australia

What if there was a Double Dissolutions?

I ended my previously post with the possibility that Rudd could call a Double Dissolutions election in his first term. I decided to do the numbers, based on the incomplete counts from the recent senate election I calculated the outcome … Continue reading

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.. and now it is time to turn out attention to the Senate

The ALP has a majority in the new House of Representatives, so Kevin Rudd is the new PM of Australia, but what about the Australia’s upper house, the Senate. For people on the left of Australian politics the Senate results … Continue reading

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Australia has a new Government

After more than 11 year of the Howard government, the Howard era is over. Even better it seems that Howard has lost his seat of Bennelong.

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Bob Brown on Rove

Rove: Who would you turn straight for? Bob: … Missy Higgins. video on youtube

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Election Odds

We are only 7 days out from the Australian federal election and I have been wasting spending a significant amount of time reading election related websites/blogs including: The Poll Bludger Andrew Bartlett’s blog GreensBlog Simon Jackman’s blog: he is doing … Continue reading

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2,000,000,000th photo on flickr

The TWO BILLIONTH photo has been uploaded to flickr and it was taken in Sydney 🙂

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