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The Great Daylight Debate

29 Mar 2009

Western Australia is a peculiar place. The people (generally) have strong views about the Eagles, Dockers, Ben Cousins (although this is become less apparent), political parties and…daylight saving. I’ve met only a few people who are sitting on the fence with this issue – the others, are strongly for or against it.
(sigh) Here are [...]

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The government can never win

In: CTBlog Entries| Politics

20 Sep 2008

Seeing that Colin Barnett, our new premier announced his Cabinet this week, I pondered at the plight of Western Australians, and how wide and varied our lifestyles are – a farmer struggling in the wheatbelt to a successful, ever-expanding small business owner in the heart of Subiaco. We have so many ideological differences, yet we [...]

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Tags: colin barnett, government, integrity, liberal party, Politics, western australia

Who are you going to vote for?

In: CTBlog Entries| Politics

2 Sep 2008

It’s election time for ’sandgropers’ this Saturday. Being my 2nd only time to vote for a compulsory election, I must say I look forward to waking up first thing on Saturday, after a no-doubt, very tiring Friday night, to be amongst the first to put pen to paper at Springfied PS.
Perhaps its the nostalgia I’ll [...]