As most of you would be aware by now, Malcolm Turnbull has won the Liberal leadership after defeating Brendan Nelson 45 votes to 41. Nelson won the post-election vote 45 votes to 42: not sure where the missing vote went (UPDATE: Kevin Andrews was overseas and didn’t vote – hat-tip to Dovif in comments).
Also:
• The latest weekly Essential Research survey has Labor’s lead back at 58-42 after a fortnight at 59-41. Also included are questions on approval of Kevin Rudd, the future of the Coalition and federalism.
• Peter Brent asks what became of the government’s green paper on disclosure, funding and expenditure issues, which was due in July.
• The Australian Electoral Commission has published comments on objections to the redistribution of Western Australian electorates.
• Bryan’s back.
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No 650
Which is why you encourage to pay for their own health.
While I like The Hollowmen, i think Yes Minister is far better. Instead of having the civil servants look like idiots it made them smart and the politicians idiotically stupid.
No political show can come close to the genius of Yes Minister/Prime Minister.
amen to that Glen.
+1
The last Commission of Inquiry into Public Hospitals in Queensland covers many of the problems and offers some solutions.
http://www.qphci.qld.gov.au/final_report/Chapter-06.pdf
This is the latest performance indicators from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare June 2008
http://www.aihw.gov.au/indicators/performance_indicators_200806_draft.pdf
(Apologies for the brief interruption: The ugly comment staircasing/indenting in MSIE is gone now. Back to your regularly scheduled deprogramming…)
Thanks Jeff
Could someone please explain for me the statements made by a number of people that GP’s avatar is the “union jack”?
On my desktop, it comes up as the GOP logo.
Is there some reason why it would come up differently on different computers?
No 659
Press CTRL + F5 to clear your browser cache.
Marvelous. Wow. Thanks for that. One can learn something new every day.
GP, I liked your old one better.
I was wondering that as well scorpio.
The Republican gravatar was better GP. You have suddenly aged about 40 years in my eyes!
No 660
By popular demand, GOP will return momentarily.
much better GP:
although you realise my gravatar is trying to take you down
I can’t identify your gravatar grog. :S
How telling are oyr Gravitars!! Brittish flags & Menzies – Oh the humanity!!!
Grog’s gravatar is awesome.
hoffmann and redford from “all the president’s men”.
Pretty Cool!
Cheers Jeff – that pic on your blog is freaking me out!
Yeah…where did that come from??
Time for acuppa
Re:the pic on Jeff’s website, Aussieguru went “Yeah…where did that come from??”
Betelgeuse 7?
Aussieguru01 is Alexander the Great if I’m not mistaken.
I’m surprised no one’s grabbed the obvious gravatar.
GB… obvious? Gough? PJK?
Kev.
Who Gary, Scarlet Johansonn?
It’s amazing how many times you can fit her name into a post and still make it relevant.
Apologies Billbowe – I’ll cease my silliness!
No 679
+1 for Scarlett. Yum.
Howard, perhaps?
I assumed he meant Hitler.
Diogenes. Yes thats right. Alexander it is. Strong, all conquering & votes Labor!! Aussie Greek too!
680 – come to think of it, so do I.
No 683
Shame, I thought you were referring to Mr Downer.
GB, the hammer & sickle might be appropriate for you.
jokes, jokes.
Diogenes – yours has a touch of Led Zepp?
Grog, Aussieguru01: That’s Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Ubuntu (kickarse version of Linux). He has hair now… slightly less scary.
No 688
come on Jeff, Vista is superior.
Thanks GP – I looked but nah.
Ubuntu rocks
I think the story is that Led Zep has a touch of Diogenes.
Diogenes@617 -
Yes, and that’s the rub. I wonder how many people would continue to demand the full on treatment if they realised what is often the longer term consequence – a long, slow, miserable death.
My, by then nearly 100 y.o., Dad was offered a pacemaker when it was noticed his heart sometimes stopped beating for up to 4 seconds or so, and grabbed it with both hands. Two years later had a major stroke, which is not unusual because blood tends to clot on the pacemaker leads and warfarin doesn’t always solve the problem. Took him 18 months of much pain and suffering to regain something close to a quality life only to be hit by another stroke massive enough to render him mostly unresponsive but not enough to kill him. So with no hope of recovery he was given what is called ‘comfort care’ which is a nice way of saying: slowly starved and finally dehydrated to death. Took a month. Not pretty. Without the pacemaker he might well have lived just as long, but without the trauma, and probably would have died peacefully in his sleep.
Sometimes death is not the worst thing that can happen to you!
LOL
Just did a quick Google of Diogenes and according to Wikepedia, he was quite an interesting character.
Can you link it Scorpio?
The LCT is back on.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/deal-gives-luxury-car-tax-a-reprieve-in-senate-20080917-4iop.html
No 696
The amendments transmute a dog’s breakfast into a dog’s brothel, making the stupid tax even more difficult to administer.
If the Greens were serious, they’d argue for the tax’s abolition in favour of one that taxes vehicles according to emissions and fuel economy standards.
Who said Labor would be controlled by the unions?
http://www.theage.com.au/national/union-fury-at-gillards-ir-changes-20080917-4iod.html
Kinda like the GST after the Democrats got to it GP?
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