Federal Labor plans to relocate its national campaign HQ to Melbourne – in the hope of winning up to seven marginal Liberal seats in Victoria. Whether it does so or not will be partly influenced by how voters perceive the State Liberal opposition and its policies, as against Premier Steve Bracks and his. The State…
People outside the USA know of Nevada, if at all, for its gambling cities. Las Vegas is the de facto casino capital of the world. But Nevada has a wider symbolic significance, one that is not confined to its legendary gambling. It has a long history of low-taxing, laissez-faire government. Its public policy has operated…
This News Weekly issue went to press before the outcome of Britain’s June 7 election was known, but all polls forecast a second Blair landslide. R. J. Stove analyses what the Conservatives have been doing, and what a serious anti-Labour party would have done instead. It is much safer to be feared than loved, when,…
b>Friends and neighbours In the aftermath of the media Shriekfest, which followed quite predictably, upon a very skilful Budget, some parts of that Budget still remain relatively untainted by Left gobbledegook. It might be better to move out of earshot from “the language uninviting of the gutter journos fighting”, and examine one area of public…