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erudito

Antipodean links

Apr 03, 2008 22:00

Yes, well what else can Melbourne do. Via vonstrassbourg. Not go to the Comedy Festival so much, apparently.

Medievalists getting a bit of publicity.

Daniel Day Lewis being generous in remembering Heath Ledger.

Some suggestions for the 2020 agenda.

Indigenous leader calls for the return of mission schools: "The missionary days were good. The missionaries ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

tyggerjai April 3 2008, 12:06:25 UTC

That ferry thing sounds like a good idea, except for one little bit.

The ferries carry the cars, thus reducing drastically the number of actual people they can carry, and take the cars to ... carparks in the city.

Is there something I'm missing that makes putting the carparks in the suburbs and ferrying people to the CBD without their cars (to, say, a tramstop) completely fucking stupid?

jai.
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halloranelder April 3 2008, 12:45:27 UTC

I think you might be missing that it was published on April 1st.

I'm think it's a little bit fishy.

Edit: And I quote... "A consortium spokeswoman, April Phule...

tyggerjai April 3 2008, 12:56:06 UTC

Ah, I was indeed got.

I did think there were parts of the yarra that get a little narrow towards the city, but overall I think it's an excellent idea, except for the ferrying cars bit. why don't they have passenger ferries?

jai.
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doushkasmum April 4 2008, 00:09:15 UTC

The Yarra is not deep enough for ferries for very far up. At Southbank, OK, by Fairfield, row-boats have to dodge the sandbars.

Rudd and IR korgmeister April 3 2008, 20:30:38 UTC

As a person educated in IR, I find Rudd's choice of delegates is really quite dissappointing. He really didn't need to cherry-pick from the left end of the spectrum in order to avoid cheerleaders for Workchoices. AHRI members were 3:1 against workchoices and I know from meeting with them that they're generally quite amenable to the free market.

They mainly hated the increased bureaucratic overhead imposed by Workchoices (it really was insane) and the lack of flexibility. But several people I asked about it also made remarks to the effect that it had nothing in it which would potentially benefit an honest employer.

Re: Rudd and IR erudito April 3 2008, 21:50:45 UTC

Given the H R Nicholls Society did not like WorkChoices because of, as you put it the increased bureaucratic overhead imposed by Workchoices (it really was insane) and the lack of flexibility one has to wonder what the Howard Government was thinking.

The ALP is very tribal, and that comes through in things like this.

Short memory must have a... catsidhe April 3 2008, 23:22:27 UTC

It didn't matter what Howard was thinking, the usual cheersquad supported Work‘choices’ until even they saw the mobs with pitchforks gathering.

At which point there was a 180° handbrake turn, and suddenly it was the most stupid idea in modern history. (Which it was, and quite a lot of people had been saying so for a long time, to a chorus of ‘what would you know?’)

Re: Short memory must have a... erudito April 4 2008, 12:16:32 UTC

Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.
One of the problem WorkChoices had was a lack of enthusiasm among the keener labour market reformers.

I suspect part of the problem is they had "got away" with complexity in the GST and either thought they might again (except, of course, they lost the 2PP vote in 1998) or had been in Government/politics for so long they didn't think it mattered.