Published on September 6, 2010 by Technology Slice
Still No Prime Minister For Australia – It has now been a week since all of Australia voted and there is still no government, and no prime minister chosen. The future of Australia rests in the hands of a handful of independents and they are milking it for all it is worth. Not only are [...]
Tags: Australia, Constituents, Handful, Independents, Limbo, Lime Light, Milking, Polls, Prime Minister, Stable Government, vote
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Published on August 31, 2010 by Technology Slice
Labor Losing In Vote Count – Yesterday, as the independents converged on Canberra for formal talks, counting showed the Coalition edging ahead of Labor on the two-party-preferred count. By late last night, with more than 80 per cent counted, the Coalition was ahead by 1909 votes after the AEC removed eight seats from its two-party [...]
Tags: Aec, Aest, Ahead, Andrew Wilkie, Australian Electoral Commission, Canberra, Closeness, Gillard, Government Spending, Horse Trading, Independent Mps, Independents, Measurement, Poker Machine, Regional Australia, Royal Hobart Hospital, Tony Abbott, Vote Count
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Published on July 19, 2010 by Technology Slice
Australian Election To Be Held In August – Support for the ruling Labor party has rebounded since Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister, was appointed three weeks ago. Seeking to take advantage of her lead and a robust economy creating jobs, she called an election on Saturday. But the poll is set to be tight [...]
Tags: Australian Election, Brisbane Jobs, Budget Surplus, Conservative Opposition, Economic Policy, Financial Markets, Galaxy, Global Financial Crisis, Greens, Independents, Knife Edge, Labor Government, Opinion Poll, Opinion Polls, Opposition Leader, Prime Minister, recession, Robust Economy, Six Times, Tony Abbott
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Published on March 9, 2010 by Technology Slice
Dan Rather Racist Watermelon Remark – If the X in the sentence “X made a comment about President Obama selling watermelons this weekend” were a prominent person of the Republican persuasion, X would probably be in the center of a media firestorm right now. In non-hypothetical terms, X is Dan Rather, who said this over [...]
Tags: Analogy, Chris Matthews Show, Dan Rather, Gop, Health Care Bill, Independents, Persuasion, Priority, Racial Stereotypes, Republicans, Rule Of Thumb, State Troopers, Traffic, Undertones, Watermelon
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