Prior to the Tasmanian election I produced a blog post mapping out the relative strength of candidates within the same party ticket in some electorates at the 2021 election. The maps showed which of a party’s candidates topped the vote for that party in each booth in a particular electorate. Today’s post is an update of that post, based on the 2024 results.
There was a number of electorates where a clear story is told when you plot the booth results for a party’s candidates.
Other than tracking my protein and fibre (and walking steafastly last the donut shoppe) I don’t go in much for diets.
But I could get behind this one from Vogue in the 1970s.
This piece is obviously in answer to some of the recent comparisons of Marjorie Taylor Greene to Neville Chamberlain, a comparison, the writer points out, that doesn’t stand up. But not for the reasons I imagined.
Less than 100 days before the next Olympic Games in Paris, we can clearly feel the excitement and joy gripping the entire country. The capital and its inhabitants are clearly rejoicing in the festivities and never has the word “Olympic events” found such a beautiful resonance with what Parisians are currently going through, who are now enjoying every minute of anticipation of these future great moments.
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
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Victoria is the nation’s most indebted state, with the lowest credit rating. S&P Global projects Victoria’s debt to inflate to $247.2 billion by 2027, up from $55.2 billion in 2019, making it the worst-performing state in Australia: Victoria’s deteriorating fiscal position is built on waste. Victoria’s “Big Build” infrastructure projects are running over time and
After deliberately ramping immigration into Australia to a record high, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to halve net overseas migration from its recent peak. “It depends upon the economic cycle, of course, but what we want to do is to lower that number significantly to around about half of what it has been”, Albanese
US President Joe Biden has implored his supporters to choose “freedom over democracy,” in the latest of a long series of gaffes and verbal blunders. Conservative pundits have viewed the incident as more proof that the 81-year-old is unfit for office.
Goldman with the note. USD: Still living in a Dollar world. As we wrote in our 202 3Outlook, the key risk to our baseline forecast of more balanced growth and gradual, modest Dollar depreciation is that continued US outperformance complicates the Fed policy path and, more importantly, Dollar assets could continue to offer superior total
The AFR is a card-carrying inflationista: Tim Toohey, chief strategist at Yarra Capital…notes that the United States didn’t see across-the-board price rises in the first three months of the year. “There’s still a strong disinflationary effect coming through the tradeable goods sector, which largely reflects China’s excess production being pushed through the developed world,” he
The green-horned devil, “Mother of Dragons”, or 12P/Pons-Brooks, a dirty big snowball, larger than Everest, hurtles into view from the edge of the solar system every seventy-one years. And out. It’s pulled by our sun’s gravity, an invisible vaudeville hook, flashing by the rare blue jewel of earth, a nephrite jade orb and ion streamer…
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The global movement towards authoritarianism took a step forward this week, and faced an experiment in checking its infiltration. In America, a frightening move towards crushing protest was made when the Supreme Court refused to hear the Mckesson v Doe case on liability accruing to protest organisers. In Europe, an international gathering of far right…
