(West) Australian Politics, Social update

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Well it seems that the National Party have decided to support the Liberals in Western Australia. Alan Carpenter has resigned which is a shame as he was a very decent individual who had the very unusual ability (among politicians) to listen to others and to admit mistakes (although he certainly should not blame himself for the appalling Labor campaign). The incoming premier, Colin Barnett, does not have the competence of Carpenter making Dr. Nelson's comments that this represents an "outstanding result .. for good governance" a joke that will end in tragedy.

Which is just as well that the Federal Liberal caucus has seen fit to remove him from the leadership in favour of Malcom Turnbull. As a completely rarity, Turnball actually is a liberal Liberal. He's more than a bit of a toff (as Australia's richest parliamentarian) and there's a gulf of experience between him and working people. When it comes to matters like abortion, stem cell research, climate change, the apology to Aboriginal Australia, superannuation to gay couples and so forth, he's certainly progressive. His weakness is that when such issues collide with the lure of the dollar, he'll choose the dollar - such as the case with the approval of Gunn's Pulp Mill.

Weekend was very enjoyable. Had an evening of many drinks and trashy videos with severina_242, _zombiemonkey and caseopya, although the latter was a little worse for wear on the journey home. The following day imajica_lj was a little late to gaming (he did turn up), so I ran an impomptu Call of Cthulhu session of "I Want You To Kill The Ice Cream Man", which is an brilliantly simple story. Tonight will be spending dinner with arjen_lentz. At some stage I really should take him up on the excellent MySQL training he offers.

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I'de agree with that. They didn't learn from the last federal liberal campaign and they went really negative rather than pushing the good things that they did.

Personally I liked Carpenter, and I liked the way there was at least an attempt to control those elements of the party that served their own interests.

I will not happy if they put Ripper in as the next opposition leader, and the alternatives arn't much good either. The Labor party really suffered from a lack of depth this election and I think it was that lack of credible personalities that undid them at the polls.

Now all I can do is await the announcement of the north-south uranium canal project funded by mining royalties... because we know it will happen.

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I noticed :)

They didn't learn from the last federal liberal campaign and they went really negative rather than pushing the good things that they did.

Yes, that is true. The Labor Party had managed the state quite well. There was no need for a change in government. Then why the panicked response from Stirling St?

Now all I can do is await the announcement of the north-south uranium canal project funded by mining royalties... because we know it will happen.

I was going to say the Lang Hancock canal but apparently there's already a railway. I'm surprised it hasn't been blown up.