There has never been a more exciting time…

Dear reader, glad we are to have another election installment from Paddy-O.

Sadly though, we hasten to add that this piece is just a little bit cynical. We get the impression that Paddy-O thinks that our P.M is a little short on substance. We politely disagree. Not since Churchill has a PM been so forthright in changing the very fabric of Society with his vision, perspicacity and extaordinary intelligence. One day the ideas, Boom, next the Tax reform thought bubble, then, the re- funding of Asic, the high speed rail link, the carbon base line, tax cuts for coroporates who don’t pay tax and now the requirement for a double dissolution to change the industrial landscape forever. We need men of character and vision, and the PM clearly knows an awful lot about everything, and we must breathlessly keep up with him, for the pace of change and thirst for reform is self evident. That’s why we’re having an election to sort out once and for all the ‘thought bubbles’ from mere hyperbole. Read on….( breatlhessly)

There has never been a more exciting time….

War and Peace, retreat from Moscow. No such retreat from the principled, innovative, exciting, forward- thinking Turnbull/Abbott Government.

74 days to go. The galling prospect of an election campaign that makes War and Peace look like a novella is now before us, although no-one has visited the Governor General yet. That’s because there is governing to do – like threatening the Banks with the bill for the cost of restoring the cuts made by the Abbott Government to ASIC.

Top shelf talent. The Abbott front bench. ‘Continuity with Change’. (No sheilas need apply.)

Apparently the Banks are to be punished for not being good by bolstering the corporate watchdog, with the strange assumption that had the cuts not been made ASIC would have prevented them ripping off pensioners and the sick and injured. Forgive me for being naïve, but if we accept the assumption in this argument doesn’t that mean the Government is to blame?

And of course there is the Budget. Today we read of one measure likely to be included: Higher tax on those earning $180,000 or more a year on their superannuation contributions. Again I may be naïve, but given the capacity of the rich to minimise their taxable income will anyone other than PAYE taxpayers be caught in this net?

Lord Hopetoun our first GG. ‘Plus ca change, chest la meme chose”

There is the clear impression of a government trying to nullify popular policies proposed by the opposition, playing catch up, trying to create a clear space to project ……well there is the problem, what is the story that they are trying to tell?

Justin Trudeau. ( Ed). ‘he does look a little bit like Mick Jagger’

Recently the world’s most attractive Prime Minister, and I am referring to Justin Trudeau of Canada, not alas Malcolm Turnbull, gave a cogent and succinct answer to a question on Quantum Computing.

I may be being mean, but I couldn’t help but remember George Brandis and his attempt to explain meta-data. Comparing the clips below is very illuminating.