Comments on: Six easy pieces

By: Average Joe

Average Joe — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:58:53 +0000

I thought Sue Walker quit because it was thought she would lose her preselection (though she never really had a strong control of the branches anyway)

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:04:39 +0000

Rod @ 14

Just cause the water is moving from North to South doesn’t mean it is moving downhill. It needs to be pumped from North to South with MASSIVE energy demands and infrastructure to support it. It is cheaper and more energy efficient to pull it out of the ocean and desalinate it than pump it so far.

By: VPL

VPL — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:19:18 +0000

William
I am the last person to forget Liz Constable – I have huge admiration for her.
The problem as I see it was that you prefaced your count of three with a list of seats and stated ‘three of THESE’. I took it to refer to the seats listed rather than the whole ‘Riverside and Northern Beaches’ category which I guess must include Churchlands.
No biggie – still love your work. I guess comments on WA will now move to the Westpoll thread…???

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:14:23 +0000

Can someone please direct me to a reference for how the West Australian distribution used to be calculated? I’m assuming that now its now (sort of) one vote one value, that previously rural voters were advantaged?

I see that WAFamilyFirst.com want to change everything back “in the interests of democracy and representation.” Based on Family First’s apparent understanding of democracy as evidenced to date, I’m assuming the bumpkin vote was elevated to astronomical levels.

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:05:54 +0000

New Westpoll post up.

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:23:51 +0000

WA doesn’t have a water crisis, the desal plant is providing 17% of our water needs with a second in advanced planning stages

And the “Gas Crisis” is a result of Barnett as Energy Minister in the Dickie Court govt privatising Alinta Gas, and selling the Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline

By: SeanofPerth

SeanofPerth — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:19:43 +0000

WA doesn’t have a water crisis, the desal plant is providing 17% of our water needs with a second in advanced planning stages

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:49:36 +0000

“If they bring Barnett back it could be worth anything up to half a dozen marginal seats to them”(minus the canal)”.

Maybe Barnett should bring back the canal idea and green it up.

You know, all this water flowing down from the north, could hook up some power generators, solve the energy crisis caused by the gas explosion and it would be carbon free and cost free energy.

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:43:05 +0000

Bill Hassell on Stateline is trying to defeend Troy Buswell.

This is going to end in tears for the Libs.

By: MDMConnell

MDMConnell — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:23:00 +0000

VPL@7

Fair enough. My impression was that Sue Walker at least resigned because of Buswell being leader- with the assumption that a new leader might make her change her mind.