Mitt Romney suddenly found himself the only real contender
for GOP Presidential Candidate 2012
for GOP Presidential Candidate 2012
and decided to focus on ‘wimmins’
Montage from Texts From Hillary
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Friday, 13 April 2012
An Australian political giant strides from the stage
Bob Brown during the Franklin River protests 1980s
The National Times Friday 13 April 2012:
Senator Brown, who is 67, made the announcement to his Greens Party Room colleagues this morning at 10am.
"I am sad to leave but happy to go. It is good knowing that the Greens have such a depth of talent and experience lined up for leadership - I could only dream about that a decade ago", Senator Brown said.
"It is prime time to hand over the reins. I offer a huge 'thank you' to the 1.7 million Australian voters who elected our Green team, and to my 9 colleagues: they have made each Green year in this parliament better than the year before - though the best is yet to come. For example, our policies for fairly taxing the resources boom and carbon polluters, uniquely enable the Greens to fund a national disabilities insurance scheme, the Gonski education reforms, Denticare, renewable energy businesses, as well as progress on High Speed Rail linking our major cities.
"I also thank my splendid staff, including my longtime friend, confidant, and fount of good political sense, Chief of Staff, Ben Oquist," Senator Brown said.
Senator Brown has called the Governor-General, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Tasmanian Greens to inform them of his resignation.
"I look forward to fresh green pursuits including writing, photography, music, occasional talks, bushwalking, and getting out with Paul to see Miranda Gibson who has been perched for 120 days 60 metres high, in defence of a giant tree facing destruction in central Tasmania," Senator Brown said.
Photograph from powerhousemuseum.com
And now for the bad news - 2012/13 residential electricity pricing on the NSW North Coast
Independent Pricing And Regulation Tribunal NSW Draft Determination: Changes in regulated electricity retail prices from 1 July 2012 (PDF file)
Electricity prices are increasing
Based on our draft decision, average regulated retail electricity prices will increase by around 16% across NSW from 1 July 2012 – or by between an average of 10.3% and 19.2% across different electricity supply areas. These changes follow average increases of 10% and 17% across NSW in 2010/11 and 2011/12 respectively.
Table 1.1 IPART's draft decision on regulated average retail electricity price increases from 1 July 2012 (including inflation, %)
EnergyAustralia | 19.2 |
Integral Energy | 10.3 |
Country Energy | 17.6 |
NSW average | 16.4 |
Note: The increases in regulated retail electricity prices are based on forecast network price increases which are subject to approval by the Australian Energy Regulator in June 2012…..
This year, the increases proposed in our draft decision are primarily driven by:
the continuing rise in forecast network costs, which contributes to around half of the average 16% price increase, and
the introduction of the Federal Government's carbon pricing mechanism, which contributes to the other half of the average price increase.
The other costs that contribute to regulated retail electricity prices will decline slightly, or remain fairly stable…..
Independent Pricing And Regulation Tribunal NSW Media Release, 12 April 2012:
Twitter offers up a political ghost to follow
Last week Twitter made this helpful offer to follow a ghost.
This is hardly Twitter's fault because disgraced former Nationals MP Steve Cansdell refuses to alter the profile attached to his inactive but visible Twitter account @stevecansdell.
No wonder that, almost seven months down the line, some voters in Clarence are confused about who represents them in the NSW Parliament.
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