STRAWS IN THE WIND: Giving to the have-mores / How long can Labor last? / Degraded educational standards / Future prospects

Shortly after he wrote the following column, Max Teichmann died on November 29, 2008, aged 84. News Weekly’s obituary, as well as other tributes and eulogies to Max, may be found at:http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2008dec20_cover3.html Giving to the have-mores Everyone is talking about the world being in one of those make-or-break situations whereby a new order is struggling to break out and establish itself, while the old order hangs on, with a result of making the future more hazardous and less plausible than it might have been before. This is the argument for giving someone like Barack Obama a carte blanche, and Kevin…