Unlikely but not impossible. If you wonder what trailing 45% to 55% in the two party vote means to your election chances then here’s a clue. Essential’s Peter Lewis writing in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on Saturday:
Time for a new party? It’s assessments like that above that lead to stories like this:
No. Not Australia but Ireland’s Sunday Independent yesterday.
That fatwa against Christmas. It’s not hard to find a Christian nutter or two with views as extraordinary as believing an Old Testament version of Creation. And it’s just as possible, as Sydney’s Sun-Herald proved yesterday, to find someone in a mosque with narrow views on religious tolerance.
But why do journalists bother to report either lot? Does Muslim-bashing really sell newspapers?
News and views noted along the way.
- A strange way to show your appreciation — her honour Patricia June O’Shane, a NSW magistrate since 1986, faced the Conduct Division of the Judicial Commission of NSW.
- Bearing Arms — a review of Living With Guns by Craig R. Whitney, an historical account of guns in America
- Nate Silver is a Frequentist: Review of “”The Signal and the Noise”
- Peacock love songs lure eavesdropping females from afar
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