New Labor Chief
As most of Australians would already know, Kevin Rudd has beaten Kim Beazley to become the new Federeal Opposition Leader. I know little about Rudd except for what wiki has to offer.
Rudd is a critic of the libertarian economist Friedrich Hayek and his free-market capitalism approach, which the Liberals follow. A "rising tide" doesn't lift all boats?
He's also an open Anglican and believes in the laudable Chrisian belief of helping the poor. To be expected as most Australians are some Christian faith. Howard is also an Anglican. I wonder if Rudd believes in financing school chaplains as well?
Finally, the man hails from Queensland. I was wondering if there's ever been a QLD PM. I know Victoria produced a few in the 60's and 70s. The last three came from NSW, and WA respectively. Then I recalled the Labor PM Andrew Fisher used to live in my old town - no doubt as a coal miner. Fisher also lived in Gympie for some time. A PM from QLD. Who would have thought?
Rudd is a critic of the libertarian economist Friedrich Hayek and his free-market capitalism approach, which the Liberals follow. A "rising tide" doesn't lift all boats?
He's also an open Anglican and believes in the laudable Chrisian belief of helping the poor. To be expected as most Australians are some Christian faith. Howard is also an Anglican. I wonder if Rudd believes in financing school chaplains as well?
Finally, the man hails from Queensland. I was wondering if there's ever been a QLD PM. I know Victoria produced a few in the 60's and 70s. The last three came from NSW, and WA respectively. Then I recalled the Labor PM Andrew Fisher used to live in my old town - no doubt as a coal miner. Fisher also lived in Gympie for some time. A PM from QLD. Who would have thought?
posted by Engels at 11:05 am
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The very short-reign of Frank Forde gave us our first Queensland PM.
First QLD born. Fisher was a Scot like Reid.
I think most of the early PMs were born overseas.
We had Barton, Deakin, both born in Oz, then Watson (Chile), Reid, Fisher (Scotland), Hughes (England, of Welsh parents) and then all Australian born from then on.
They were talking about QLD PM's on the news earlier today, and I think they said there's only been 2 before. I found it a little surprising, thought there would've been more, but then I realised how much NSW and Vic can be so self-centered in almost anything (especially sport!!), I figured most would ahve been from those states. I'd be interested in finding out which states have provided how many PM's.
Early on, Vic was the big source for most PMs, now it seems to have moved to Sydney (Keating and Howard both from Sydney).
Good ol' Grafton even had a native-born go to the tob job.
Sir Earle Grafton Christmas Page.
Gorton and Menzies were Victorian. Holt and Gorton were in Costello's current electorate - the rich suburbs of Melbourne. I've seen Holt's swimming pool - the irony.
I recently read there has been some rivalry over the years between the NSW and Vic pollies in one of the parties, I think Liberal.
In highshool when learning databases, our sample database was one of all the Australian PMs. I think somebody else had to use it for their work...perhaps Dalai.
indeed, twas I what learned up on both databases and PM's goodly like, in my state-high-school years...
ah, how i recall, fondly, the days of x86 computers (that is, they weren't even in the 100's yet, a 286 was a vague and distant fantasy in my state school funded education), with the massive floppy boot disks and all the monitors with small sets of pixels all burned out in the centre by the kids turning the monitor on and off repeatedly as quickly as possible.... those were the days...
Ah, the PM database. It even listened hobbies of PM's. Harold Holt's were swimming and diving - hehe. Obviously couldn't swim well enough.
Turning the screens on and off? Right.
yup, you know that thing where you see a monitor turn off and it kinda has all the light quickly zap into the middle as the guns must turn off and the middle glows for a tiny second...
hard to explain, its very cliched and makes me think i've seen it a lot in movies.. you know, when the power goes out and the monitor turns off and the lights go out and lightning crashes and the door bell rings...
anyway, if you basically turn your monitor on and off at about 15 times a second, the constant high intensity focus of all the light guns would apparently burn out all the pixels in the centre of the monitor.... BRAVO DEADSHITS....
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