Kate Carruthers

Chris in a recent post over at Points of Information has a nice perspective on compulsory voting: "forcing indifferent people to turn out means that you drastically increase the amount of noise in your electoral system, reducing the quality of the results you get". One thing Chris might

John Howard claims that "Labor [is] returning to IR 'dark ages'", The Sydney Morning Herald, August 7, 2004 But the Opposition workplace relations spokesman, Craig Emerson, said Labor was proposing a federal system similar to that now operating in NSW and Queensland, two of the strongest

It is fascinating to note the abundant and well groomed hair of all of the Presidential candidates in the US. This is very different to Australia where neither of the current contenders for Prime Minister has very good hair at all. In fact, a recent survey by Wahl - the hair