Comments on: Siege of Troy

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:02:22 +0000

William, any chance of a post on Today’s Westpoll ?

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:16:48 +0000

Any chance of a Murdoch by-election thread, William? All this political discussion is oh so interesting, but it’d be great to be able to get back to discussing the next election off the rank..

Rebecca,

THe Libs are upset that the corpse is still warm when they announced it, and Bill Johnson has saids that the ALP are most likely not to run a candidate cos it’s a safe Lib seat.

Expect a Melbourne Cup Field of independents and minor parties, with the Lib Candidate winning.

By: VPL

VPL — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:11:50 +0000

I seem to recall the poor electors of Peel having to wait months for a new elected representative… of course, that was necessitated not by death but by corruption and scandal. Puts the timing of the Murdoch by-election a bit into perspective.

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:16:28 +0000

Ex ABC TV News, Murdoch By-elction to be held on Feb 23rd

Libs accusing Govt of “Acting with Haste”.

By: Andos the Great

Andos the Great — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:56:46 +0000

Troy the Conqueror:

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=525079

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:27:36 +0000

New Matilda article by former ALP candidate for Pearce at the 2004 Election, David Ritter.

http://www.newmatilda.com/2008/01/21/wa-boys-club

By: Dinsdale Piranha

Dinsdale Piranha — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:52:04 +0000

I live in the former Murdoch electorate, and a monkey could win that seat for the Liberal party, and often has. Jarvis is therefore destined to be my next Lower House member, whether he has simian attributes or not.

I wouldn’t want to get all defamatory about Jarvis, but based on my hazy memories of student politics in the mid-90’s….let’s just say that the joke about lawyers, sharks and professional courtesy comes to mind…

By: Fulvio Sammut

Fulvio Sammut — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:14:53 +0000

Thanks William.

I live in the former Murdoch electorate, and a monkey could win that seat for the Liberal party, and often has. Jarvis is therefore destined to be my next Lower House member, whether he has simian attributes or not.

With all due respect and sympathy to Mr. Sprigg and his family, I don’t think he contributed much as my local member apart from his popularity amongst the Aussie Rules set and the cricket mob. He always seemed to be there at every sporting function, but I can’t think of any actual contribution on his part that meant something.

Bit like me really, only a different sport….

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:47:21 +0000

The NA would be the Northern Alliance, a Liberal faction noted for its strength in the northern suburbs. Principals include Peter Collier (upper house MP who reportedly has his sights on Katie Hodson-Thomas’s seat of Carine) and Colin Edwardes (husband of Cheryl and defeated candidate for Kingsley in 2005, reportedly hoping to take Collier’s place in the upper house). Sprigg’s electorate had been divided into safe Bateman and unsafe Jandakot and Sprigg got second prize, Bateman going to 33-year-old lawyer Anthony Jarvis. Robert Taylor of The West reckoned this was because “strategists believe Mr Sprigg, with his established profile, will have a much better chance of winning Jandakot than an unknown newcomer like Mr Jarvis, whose legal background would nevertheless be very welcome in Parliament”, but Average Joe presumably thinks differently.

By: Fulvio Sammut

Fulvio Sammut — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:27:45 +0000

Average Joe, who are the NA and what are you talking about?