[extropy-chat] Greens do well in Oz elections

[Emlyn]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:19:07 +1000, Brett Paatsch
<bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Now, to his surprise I am sure, his desired outcome has fallen into
> his lap. I suspect he will find it very hard to retire and make way
> for Peter Costello given the opportunity to do some serious
> reforming without the obstruction of the senate.
> 
> I think Costello would be more conservative than Howard in
> religious terms (Abbot definately would be) and less able to
> put a more enlightened view to his co-religious effectively on
> stem cells.
> 
> Brett

Hmm... to me, it seems we've just returned a pathological liar to
office, and removed his last shred of accountability (the senate). Bad
times ahead, and we wont even know what's going on.

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Emlyn

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