Following the recent publication of draft new boundaries for Victoria, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, we now have some idea of what the state of play will be going into the next election, albeit that said boundaries are now subject to a process of public submissions and possible revision. The only jurisdictions that will retain their boundaries from the 2016 election will be New South Wales and Western Australia, redistributions for Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory having been done and dusted since the last election.
The next election will be for a House of Representatives of 151 seats, ending a period with 150 seats that began in 2001. This is down to rounding in the formula by which states’ populations are converted into seat entitlements, which on this occasion caused Victoria to gain a thirty-seventh seat and the Australian Capital Territory to tip over to a third, balanced only by the loss of a seat for South Australia, which has now gone from thirteen to ten since the parliament was enlarged to roughly its present size in 1984.
The changes have been generally favourable to Labor, most noticeably in that the new seat in Victoria is a Labor lock on the western edge of Melbourne, and a third Australian Capital Territory seat amounts to three safe seats for Labor where formerly there were two. The ACT previously tipped over for a third seat at the 1996 election, but the electorate of Namadji proved short-lived, with the territory reverting to two seats in 1998, and remaining just below the threshold ever since. The Victorian redistribution has also made Dunkley in south-eastern Melbourne a notionally Labor seat, and has brought Corangamite, now to be called Cox, right down to the wire. Antony Green’s and Ben Raue’s estimates have it fractionally inside the Coalition column; mine has it fractionally tipping over to Labor.
The table at the bottom is a pendulum-style listing of the new margins, based on my own determinations for the finalisised and draft redistributions. The outer columns record the margin changes in the redistributions, where applicable (plus or minus Coalition or Labor depending on which side of the pendulum they land). Since I have Cox/Corangamite in the Labor column, I get 77 seats in the Coalition column, including three they don’t hold (Mayo, held by Rebekha Sharkie of the Nick Xenophon Team, and Indi and Kennedy, held by independents Cathy McGowan and Bob Katter), and 74 in the Labor column, including two they don’t hold (Andrew Wilkie’s seat of Clark, as Denison will now be called, and Adam Bandt’s seat of Melbourne).
For those who like long rows of numbers, the following links are to spreadsheets that provide a full accounting of my calculations for the finalised redistributions in Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. I will do something similar when the Victorian, South Australian and ACT redistributions are finalised, which should be around August.
Federal redistribution of Queensland 2018
Federal redistribution of Tasmania 2017
Federal redistribution of Northern Territory 2017
| Coalition seats | Labor seats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.0% | (0.6%) | Qld | CAPRICORNIA | HERBERT | Qld | (0.0%) | 0.0% |
| 0.0% | (0.6%) | Qld | FORDE | COX (CORANGAMITE) | Vic | (0.1%) | +3.2% |
| (0.7%) | NSW | GILMORE | COWAN | WA | (0.7%) | ||
| 0.0% | (-1.0%) | Qld | FLYNN | LONGMAN | Qld | (0.8%) | 0.0% |
| (1.1%) | NSW | ROBERTSON | LINDSAY | NSW | (1.1%) | ||
| (1.4%) | NSW | BANKS | GRIFFITH | Qld | (1.4%) | -0.2% | |
| 0.0% | (1.6%) | Qld | PETRIE | MACNAMARA (MELBOURNE PORTS) | Vic | (1.5%) | +0.1% |
| +0.2% | (1.8%) | Qld | DICKSON | BRADDON | Tas | (1.6%) | -0.6% |
| (2.1%) | WA | HASLUCK | DUNKLEY | Vic | (1.7%) | +3.2% | |
| (2.3%) | NSW | PAGE | MACQUARIE | NSW | (2.2%) | ||
| +1.1% | (2.5%) | Vic | LA TROBE | ISAACS | Vic | (2.4%) | -3.3% |
| +7.6% | (2.8%) | SA | BOOTHBY | EDEN-MONARO | NSW | (2.9%) | |
| +2.0% | (3.2%) | Vic | CHISHOLM | PERTH | WA | (3.3%) | |
| +4.3% | (3.3%) | SA | MAYO | RICHMOND | NSW | (4%) | |
| +0.0% | (3.4%) | Qld | DAWSON | LYONS | Tas | (4%) | +1.7% |
| 0.0% | (3.4%) | Qld | BONNER | BENDIGO | Vic | (4%) | +0.2% |
| (3.6%) | WA | SWAN | MORETON | Qld | (4.1%) | +0.0% | |
| (3.6%) | WA | PEARCE | HOTHAM | Vic | (4.3%) | -3.2% | |
| -0.0% | (3.9%) | Qld | LEICHHARDT | DOBELL | NSW | (4.8%) | |
| -1.9% | (4.1%) | Vic | CASEY | JAGAJAGA | Vic | (5.1%) | +0.4% |
| (4.7%) | NSW | REID | McEWEN | Vic | (5.4%) | -2.4% | |
| +0.4% | (4.8%) | Vic | INDI | BASS | Tas | (5.4%) | -0.7% |
| +1.2% | (5.7%) | SA | STURT | LILLEY | Qld | (5.8%) | +0.5% |
| +0.1% | (6%) | Qld | BRISBANE | SOLOMON | NT | (6.1%) | +0.1% |
| (6.1%) | WA | STIRLING | GREENWAY | NSW | (6.3%) | ||
| +0.5% | (6.2%) | Vic | DEAKIN | BURT | WA | (7.1%) | |
| -0.1% | (6.7%) | Qld | KENNEDY | BALLARAT | Vic | (7.5%) | +0.1% |
| (6.8%) | WA | CANNING | FREMANTLE | WA | (7.5%) | ||
| 0.0% | (7.1%) | Qld | BOWMAN | PARRAMATTA | NSW | (7.7%) | |
| -0.7% | (7.1%) | Vic | FLINDERS | BLAIR | Qld | (8.2%) | -0.7% |
| -1.2% | (7.4%) | Vic | ASTON | LINGIARI | NT | (8.2%) | -0.2% |
| +1.6% | (7.6%) | Vic | MONASH (McMILLAN) | WERRIWA | NSW | (8.2%) | |
| -2.9% | (7.7%) | Vic | MENZIES | HINDMARSH | SA | (8.2%) | +0.7% |
| +0.0% | (8.2%) | Qld | WIDE BAY | BARTON | NSW | (8.3%) | |
| -0.1% | (8.4%) | Qld | HINKLER | MACARTHUR | NSW | (8.3%) | |
| -3.5% | (8.6%) | SA | GREY | KINGSFORD SMITH | NSW | (8.6%) | |
| -0.1% | (9%) | Qld | RYAN | CORIO | Vic | (8.6%) | -1.4% |
| +0.1% | (9.1%) | Vic | WANNON | BEAN | ACT | (8.9%) | New |
| +0.1% | (9.2%) | Qld | FISHER | ADELAIDE | SA | (8.9%) | +2.1% |
| (9.3%) | NSW | HUGHES | OXLEY | Qld | (9%) | 0.0% | |
| 0.0% | (9.6%) | Qld | WRIGHT | MARIBYRNONG | Vic | (9.5%) | -2.8% |
| (9.7%) | NSW | BENNELONG | HOLT | Vic | (9.9%) | -4.3% | |
| -0.6% | (10.1%) | Vic | HIGGINS | SHORTLAND | NSW | (9.9%) | |
| (10.2%) | NSW | HUME | PATERSON | NSW | (10.7%) | ||
| -0.0% | (10.9%) | Qld | FAIRFAX | FRANKLIN | Tas | (10.7%) | +0.0% |
| (11%) | WA | MOORE | MAKIN | SA | (10.8%) | +0.1% | |
| (11.1%) | WA | DURACK | RANKIN | Qld | (11.3%) | 0.0% | |
| (11.1%) | WA | TANGNEY | BRAND | WA | (11.4%) | ||
| (11.1%) | NSW | WARRINGAH | FENNER | ACT | (11.8%) | -2.1% | |
| +0.2% | (11.3%) | Qld | FADDEN | McMAHON | NSW | (12.1%) | |
| (11.6%) | NSW | LYNE | HUNTER | NSW | (12.5%) | ||
| 0.0% | (11.6%) | Qld | McPHERSON | CANBERRA | ACT | (12.9%) | +4.4% |
| (11.8%) | NSW | CALARE | CUNNINGHAM | NSW | (13.3%) | ||
| -0.2% | (12.4%) | Vic | GOLDSTEIN | KINGSTON | SA | (13.5%) | +0.1% |
| (12.6%) | WA | FORREST | WHITLAM | NSW | (13.7%) | ||
| (12.6%) | NSW | COWPER | NEWCASTLE | NSW | (13.8%) | ||
| -0.8% | (12.6%) | Vic | KOOYONG | LALOR | Vic | (14.3%) | +0.9% |
| (13.6%) | NSW | NORTH SYDNEY | GELLIBRAND | Vic | (14.7%) | -3.6% | |
| +6.9% | (14.4%) | SA | BARKER | SYDNEY | NSW | (15.3%) | |
| -0.4% | (14.6%) | Qld | MONCRIEFF | CLARK (DENISON) | Tas | (15.3%) | -0.0% |
| (15%) | WA | O’CONNOR | BRUCE | Vic | (15.8%) | +11.7% | |
| (15.1%) | NSW | PARKES | MELBOURNE | Vic | (17%) | +0.4% | |
| 0.0% | (15.3%) | Qld | GROOM | FOWLER | NSW | (17.5%) | |
| (15.4%) | NSW | COOK | WATSON | NSW | (17.6%) | ||
| (15.7%) | NSW | MACKELLAR | SPENCE (WAKEFIELD) | SA | (17.9%) | +0.8% | |
| (16.4%) | NSW | NEW ENGLAND | GORTON | Vic | (18.3%) | -1.2% | |
| (16.4%) | NSW | RIVERINA | CHIFLEY | NSW | (19.2%) | ||
| (16.4%) | NSW | BEROWRA | BLAXLAND | NSW | (19.5%) | ||
| 0.0% | (17.5%) | Qld | MARANOA | CALWELL | Vic | (20%) | +2.2% |
| (17.7%) | NSW | WENTWORTH | SCULLIN | Vic | (20.4%) | +3.1% | |
| (17.8%) | NSW | MITCHELL | FRASER | Vic | (20.9%) | New | |
| -0.3% | (18.1%) | Vic | GIPPSLAND | WILLS | Vic | (21.7%) | +0.5% |
| -1.4% | (19.9%) | Vic | MALLEE | BATMAN | Vic | (22.2%) | +0.5% |
| (20.5%) | NSW | FARRER | GRAYNDLER | NSW | (22.4%) | ||
| (20.7%) | WA | CURTIN | |||||
| (21%) | NSW | BRADFIELD | |||||
| -2.5% | (22.4%) | Vic | NICHOLLS (MURRAY) |
Confessions says: Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 2:25 pm
phoenixRed:
Watching the interview with Avenetti he’s either cocksure his legal strategy is going to pay dividends, crazy brave for making such statements of surety on national TV, or totally full of shite and spinning like a top for his client!
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Probably a mixture of all three, Confessions – anything I have read about him has won a lot of praise for his bold tactics that have clearly outsmarted the hacks that Trump has scraped together – as no self respecting lawyer wants to be associated with him in any way – they all say – One he doesn’t listen and two he doesn’t pay …..
The thought that he may somehow ( long shot, I know ) be able to get Trump/Cohen on the stand over the Daniels affair has Trump pretty scared with what might come out over many issues that Trump wants to keep secret. Avanatti comes over as a personable guy that one would want in their corner for a legal confrontation over some dispute
poroti:
He hinted at running for office when all this Stormy stuff is done and dusted.
Re attorney/client privilege… in court you can argue black is white.
It’s not whether privilege actually exists or not. It’s how long you can string out argument in court.
Zoidlord says:
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 2:02 pm
@Don
The problem is it’s not just a simple $400 here or there, these patients need daily doses most likely for a long time, that is why it is said to cost over $100K for a year just these pills.
Not to mention other fees or operations, hospital care, transport, etc that US patients need to fork out for.
Because they don’t have same hospital system as we do with Medicare and PBS.
I am aware of all that, read my post again.
Don’t be an apologist for the makers of these pills.
Straw man, I am not an apologist. Read my post again.
Coming from experience who worked in a factory making health care supplements, they do make a bit of profit.
In the US, it is a staggeringly exorbitant amount of profit.
phoenixRed:
One thing came through loud and clear: he truly believes Cohen is the weakest of weak links in the Trump Imbroglio, but he knows where all the Trump bodies are buried, and will sing his heart out to prosecutors.
I’m sceptical but we’ll see.
Confessions
Ah. Nothing like a bit of profile raising and name recognition before running 🙂
Presumably Murdoch will claim this is a bad thing:
Confessions says: Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 2:42 pm
phoenixRed:
One thing came through loud and clear: he truly believes Cohen is the weakest of weak links in the Trump Imbroglio, but he knows where all the Trump bodies are buried, and will sing his heart out to prosecutors.
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That’s the impression I got from Avanatti – and a whole lot of other legal heads in the US who say that Cohen – when faced with inevitable – he doesn’t want to be some guys ‘wife’ in some hell hole jail – will sing like a canary- even long time Trump confident sleazebag Roger Stone said today that Cohen may seek revenge on Trump for treating him like garbage over the years ……. all seem to think Cohen will inevitably fold on Trump
“”When the Greens get enough numbers to become a government in their own right you will be arguing exactly the same case as the Greens.””.
I regret to inform you, that will not happen in my lifetime, so in the meantime vote Labor if you wan t to get rid of this USELESS LNP+NATS coalition!.
steve davis
They wanted to see the kangaroo jump!
Some of our Asian friends have no feeling for animals, unfortunately.
lizzie says:
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 3:03 pm
steve davis
They wanted to see the kangaroo jump!
Some of our Asian friends have no feeling for animals, unfortunately.
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The zoo needs to put up high wire fences such as those on overpass bridges in Australia which are specifically there to stop people throwing rocks on the cars passing beneath.
Every country has its fair share of idiots.
Thanks for this link about our stillborn Bill of Rights, Lizzie (1:04pm).
http://treatyrepublic.net/content/rudd-government-rejects-human-rights-charter
I did not know about the role that Bob Carr played, but it just adds to the reasons I dislike the man intensely. (And I expect to be campaigning for Labor at the next federal election).
It was Carr who single handedly destroyed STEM teaching in NSW schools by introducing the worst HSC science curricula since pre-Wyndham scheme.
It was a sop to mostly private school parents to try and stop students with ESL (i.e. Kids of Vietnamese boat people etc) from getting high Uni entrance scores by studying Physics, Chemistry and Maths.
It made the paying parents angry that Cabramatta kids were beating their “betters”, don’t ya know.
(I marked HSC physics in ’80s & ’90s. Those kids were very good).
Thankfully, it has been changed back this year.
ML:
(I marked HSC physics in ’80s & ’90s. Those kids were very good).
Thankfully, it has been changed back this year.
At one time, students doing Advanced, Ext 1 and Ext 2 maths were given fair compensation for their marks in the NSW HSC.
Now we have the situation that students who formerly would have studied at least Advanced are now doing Standard (used to be General) Maths, and are being better rewarded than if they chose to do higher level maths.
Is that still the case?
The crunch comes, of course, when they get to University and need calculus.
The universities used to pretend that a ‘bridging course’ would solve that problem. Predictably, a short course (months or less) in calculus and similar algebra (taught as lectures, not in a normal classroom) is no match for two years study with a committed teacher.
They did it, I suspect, to get bums on seats. Who cares if they bomb out at the end of the semester exams?
Now, at least some Universities are laying it out clearly that if you want to do Science/Maths based subjects at Uni, you need at least Advanced Maths.
Maude Lynne
Hear Hear. Carr symbolic of the inner rotteness that ate the heart out of NSW politics.
@guytaur
I agree fully with your thoughts you have expressed.
Don, yes it’s still the case, AFAIK (but I’m losing touch with the details ), and yes, it’s to get bums on seats.
The academics hate how the system now allows in students with year 10 standard knowledge because they have to adjust their teaching to try and compensate.
Not possible, obviously.
What’s more, they can’t fail them (unless they are truly woeful) because that affects the Uni’s bottom line (dropouts don’t come back next year).
Fortunately, some (only some) Unis are imposing entry standards again.
I hate to say it, but Birmingham’s caps may be causing the change.
uytaur says:
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 12:40 pm
briefly
Unless you can show the Greens polling suddenly raising to the degree that they will become the government instead of Labor you have no case against encouraging those voting Green to preference Labor.
The case against the Gs is they ride shotgun for the LNP all the damned time. They are Tories in fancy dress.
The Gs campaign against Labor endlessly. It is only natural that Labor should campaign against them in reply. They are among Labor’s opponents. If you want a Labor Government, the obvious and rational thing to do is to vote Labor. If you vote otherwise, it’s fair to conclude you do not want a Labor Government.
Australian banks in crisis – Royal Commission now global news after shocking revelations from AMP and CBA
RC has made it to world news sites.
The Gs have swallowed all the reactionary disinformation and campaign against the party of social justice.
For those wondering about Guiliani’s possible tactics, the New Yorker had this today-but-yesterday:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/rudy-giulianis-wishful-thinking-about-trump-and-mueller
don
Ah calculus. Absolutely totally hated it when being taught it back in the day. However years later went back to it and loved it. Wonder WTF did I find so difficult ‘back in the day ‘ 🙂 Actually the secret is the text book I came across it “spoke to me” . Found that with statistics as well. Looked at several that supposedly taught the same area,some left me thinking WTF are they saying while one or two made it seem so easy.
Anyway, my take away from it was to keep checking as many text books as possible until one of the “Speaks to you”.
Worth remembering that the person who gets your Number 1 vote also gets the AEC’s dollar.
Steve davis – thanks for info about Banks RC making world news.
Do you have a link readily available?
Maude Lynne
That was my thought, too. 🙂
Oh dear. Not just once but twice.
poroti says: Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 3:40 pm
don
Ah calculus. Absolutely totally hated it when being taught it back in the day. However years later went back to it and loved it. Wonder WTF did I find so difficult ‘back in the day ‘ Actually the secret is the text book I came across it “spoke to me”
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A fantastically inspirational film – “Stand And Deliver ” – ( said to be 90 % true/10% story heightened )
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a LA Hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods help gang members and no-hopers pass the rigorous Advanced Placement exam in calculus. Stand and Deliver is one of the best films of the Eighties and one of the most inspiring . Anyone who could get kids fired up about algebra and calculus as Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante did has my undying respect.
The Mexican-American kids he teaches in Garfield High School have it in their minds they’ll be filling station attendants, fast food cooks, or day laborers, striving for better is not something they think about. More than teaching them math skills, we are shown how Olmos makes them believe in themselves and their potential.
Olmos is one of those rare teachers whose very presence in the lives of his students makes them change.
Rex Douglas says:
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 12:28 pm
One things for certain – all Labor people should be urging for the re-election of Mark Butler as ALP President.
….an attempt to plant the kiss of death on Butler’s chances….
@beneltham
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Exhibit A: Patty Akopiantz is a board member of Belvoir. She is also a current director of AMP. At AMP she is on the Governance Committee. Did she know about the doctored Clayton Utz report? 2/n
don @ #163 Saturday, April 21st, 2018 – 12:24 pm
I found calculus easier at Uni than at High School because it was dealt with as an infinite series at Uni and so I understood exactly what it was.
This was early to mid 80s, is this still the case? 🙂
Barney in Go Dau says:
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 1:25 pm
briefly @ #121 Saturday, April 21st, 2018 – 9:39 am
If you want to help the LNP, vote G. It’s that simple.
This all or nothing mentality is bullsh!t.
No Party in Australia can can form Government without preferences from voters who prefer someone else first.
Labor are the only Party that can form Government in their own right but in a close run election where no one gets a majority it is only right that they try and gain the support of the cross benches to form a majority.
This is the Gs dream election result…the one where Labor will need cross-party support to govern. Knowing this, the Gs put most of their energy into disrupting Labor, hoping to prevent the election of a strong Labor government, this being their worst nightmare.
The Gs strategy consists of weakening Labor wherever possible. They basically exist in order to defeat Labor candidates, programs, policies and goals. They have no other purpose. In this, they have become shadows of the LNP.
And yet, they still suppose that Labor should be grateful to them. Unbelievable hubris from a petite bourgeois sect who think they are better than the rest.
lizzie @ #174 Saturday, April 21st, 2018 – 12:53 pm
I often wonder how much of the animosity is related to this.
It often comes from Party members. 🙂
Gaby D’Souza@gabster0191
1h1 hour ago
I just published “Fact-checking piece on South African refugee migrants (Adam Creighton- The Australian 10/04/2018)”
https://medium.com/@gabster0191/fact-checking-piece-on-south-african-refugee-migrants-adam-creighton-the-australian-10-04-2018-6cdef626d159
Barney in Go Dau says:
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 4:14 pm
lizzie @ #174 Saturday, April 21st, 2018 – 12:53 pm
Maude Lynne
Worth remembering that the person who gets your Number 1 vote also gets the AEC’s dollar.
My attitudes have nothing to do with the AEC $.
It’s really about winning or losing. Labor have to win. We work for that end and to advantage all the people in the community that rely on Labor; to serve the historic goals to which Labor is committed.
The Gs set out to obstruct Labor just as much as do the LNP. The Gs define themselves by their opposition to Labor. They should be treated as antagonists because that is exactly what they are.
Mumble on FF own goal merger with Bernardi’s mob.
http://insidestory.org.au/whats-in-a-name-2/
Briefly
You’ve still got the high dudgeon but you’re back! What happened?
Thanks Maude Lynne, I feared that was the answer to my question.
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poroti says:
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 3:40 pm
don
Ah calculus. Absolutely totally hated it when being taught it back in the day. However years later went back to it and loved it. Wonder WTF did I find so difficult ‘back in the day ‘ Actually the secret is the text book I came across it “spoke to me” . Found that with statistics as well. Looked at several that supposedly taught the same area,some left me thinking WTF are they saying while one or two made it seem so easy.
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Don’t forget that in the meantime you became smarter. You had learned by that time how to learn. And you were committed to learn.
I went back to Uni as an adult to do some courses, Geography primarily, and the poor little first year out of high school kids did not have a hope compared with mature students. I wanted to do Geography since I have always loved maps. They just did not have the English skills that an older adult has.
If I didn’t get a high mark in essays and research reports and exams I was disappointed. Earlier, as a teenager at Uni I was lucky to scrape through with a bare pass.
BigD:
I found calculus easier at Uni than at High School because it was dealt with as an infinite series at Uni and so I understood exactly what it was.
This was early to mid 80s, is this still the case?
You certainly do infinite sequences and series in NSW Advanced and Ext 1 courses, but rarely do you need that for calculus in HS Maths – about the only time is when you are doing Newton’s method for the approximation (to any given degree of accuracy) of the intersection of, for example, a function of x with the x axis.
You also work with series when you do Mathematical Induction, a delightful part of the Ext 1 course. That and proving Trig identities were always my favourite topics in maths.They are, in many ways, like doing a cryptic crossword, now a favourite pastime for me.
And certainly, if you do the theory of calculus in any depth, you are working with limits as delta (or h for Newton’s method) approaches zero. But that gets quickly shoved out of the way in favour of more interesting uses of calculus, such as areas and volumes and maxima and minima of functions.
Confessions @ #175 Saturday, April 21st, 2018 – 3:54 pm
Comey covers this in his book, “A Higher Loyalty”.
As would be expected Comey is a mile ahead of trump in the ‘thinking’ aspect. trump is not a “reader” of anything much let alone a 200 page book.
Sorry for the double post, edit is playing up.
Consider the following —
Heavy chatter on the DH circuit concerning UFOs.
Number of so called conspiracy nuts having been molested by brain eating but really stupid aliens multiplies exponentially.
Whistle blower reveals that Government members are being treated for serious mental deficits.
Daily Telegraph headlines mention Palilalia, Tourette Syndrome and Echolalia symptoms in the form of spoken, shouted and endlessly repeated “Shorten, Get Bill, Kill Bill, Shorten, Shorten …….. ” echoing through the talk shows our great nation.
Steve, Eddie, Tracey, Virginia, Michael and many, many more apparently affected by this malignancy.
Downloads of hit song Get Shorten 🎸 goes viral (WTF that means).
Bill Shorten claims copyright and is measured for new wardrobe by Saville Row tailors.
Bill Shorten is said to keep his new found wealth in very large socks at the bottom of his garden, guarded by the family cat.
Shorten brand of underwear and his Pour Homme Elixir of Love 💋 listed on NY and HK stock exchanges.
KayJay wakes up.
Am I dead yet. NO ❗ Hurrah for me.
“Then, last year, Family First merged with Liberal defector Cory Bernardi’s new party, the Australian Conservatives. A match made in heaven, they announced.”
Maybe a match made somewhere with a warmer climate.
Dave:
You can pretty much discount anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth or tweets as total fabrications. The number of actual proven lies he’s told since taking office numbers (I believe) in the thousands, testament to his inability to be truthful about most things.
And proof Trump doesn’t read is that he not only referred to Mueller as Special Council once, but did it twice. For a man who spends so much time tweeting about the Russia investigation you’d think by now he’d realise it’s Special Counsel.
Love the excerpts from the Comey book btw, am thinking of buying it myself 🙂
Re calculus, I can recommend the long series of books, ‘The Baroque Cycle’ by Neal Stephenson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
Set in the late 16th and early 17th century, one of the protagonists is a friend of both Newton and Leibniz. Newton becomes completely consumed with proving he invented ‘the calculus’ and Leibniz stole it from him.
It is generally considered Newton and Leibniz both invented calculus independently, at the same time.
In it is depicted an excellent conversation with Newton where he indicates his idea for calculus, where he observed from a high bridge punts navigating a winding, serpentine river.
The Greens: specializing in political wet dreams.
John Reidy @ #193 Saturday, April 21st, 2018 – 5:14 pm
The Baroque Cycle was an excellent trilogy – the “prequel”, Cryptonomicon: not so much.
dave @ #188 Saturday, April 21st, 2018 – 4:58 pm
It is becoming evident that Trump is not as bright as Nixon. I think he’ll “resign” when the Dems win the house in November.
Fess – yeah the book is a good read. It moves along nicely and Comey comes across as thoughtful and very decent.
At most trump takes up about 15% of the book, but in his life and career experience Comey is of course setting the scene about his experience with trump. He only worked for trump for 5 months.
The situation with Hillary’s emails etc is covered in detail and that does put a different complexion on what he did and why he did it – IMO anyway.
I’ll post several more extracts in the next day or so, but the following has a nice touch to it about Comey in his last meeting with Obama in the Oval Office –
Comey was on Colbert for anyone interested.
30 mins
I’ve yet to watch it myself …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nGPNn19vE
Wonder what snacks Trump has on offer in the Oval office. He doesn’t look very health conscious. Bowl of Cheetos?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/21/33-years-on-a-long-term-solution-to-live-export-trade-remains-elusive