Bush and Howard: Political bedfellows
Thought this article was kind of interesting:
Australia is too close to US: Latham
This guy Latham is really on a tear lately. I don't know all the history, he is the former leader of the opposition Labor party. He has just recently released a much anticipated "diary" of his account on the behind-the-scenes goings-on of the party over the last little while. Just like in the US, the opposition has been unable to put together a pallatable alternative to the Bush/Howard administrations.
posted by Mark Robinson at 11:20 AM
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We just had an election here and it was very close (in fact still not entirely sorted). It looks like the Labour party will return by less than 1% margin of victory in votes. People wanted a change from Helen Clark, but the National party is more pro US policy so the kiwis still favoured Labour. They use a 2 vote system here (1 vote for your local electorate and 1 party vote). It would be what's missing in Canada (if you local MP is a putz but you want the party you can split, the party vote then goes further to determining the goverment).
NZ is very much like Canada politically. So many paralells between Canada - US and NZ - Oz (population ratio, resources, defence, sport rivalry, etc.)
Safest place in the world eh? Well, OK maybe I'll stay a while longer then...
Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:43:00 AM
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