Word: deakins
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...inexperience was not a problem. "He has a lot to learn, but who doesn't?" said 75-year-old Margaret Nicol outside a bakery in Caboolture, part of the marginal Queensland seat of Longman. For one 79-year-old in a shopping center in the marginal Melbourne seat of Deakin, Medicare Gold was enough to assuage his doubts. "My wife worries that he's just a boy, but I think he should be given a go." In the New South Wales seat of Dobell, Josephine Mills wasn't planning to vote for Latham, but "I'd like him to stay...
...Asian immigration comments two decades ago. But even as the parties scrambled to out-fox and outspend each other, voters in marginals struggled to wade through the detail. "I know I should care about who's in charge of the country," said 22-year-old paramedic Gemma McMahon in Deakin, "but with work and study and running a household, I'm just too busy...
...Faith and Works You need to go back 100 years, to Alfred Deakin, to find a prime ministerial aspirant who has put so many ideas and policy positions into the public domain. Only a few of those ideas are new, original or likely to be coming to a bureaucracy any time soon, but they're out there - in Latham's books, pamphlets, speeches, newspaper columns and correspondence - and it's been a great career move. One disadvantage of that fertility, though, is that he can spread too many seeds, too many messages. Is he for the free market...
...President will also need to engage with parliament, in which his party controls only 57 seats out of 550. "They could refuse to pass legislation in areas such as judicial reform and corruption," says Damien Kingsbury, a lecturer in Indonesian affairs at Deakin University in Melbourne. "And that would badly affect his economic platform...
...bloodshed, dislocation and military law has only intensified the sense of alienation among ordinary Acehnese. "It's totally polarized what was left of civil society in Aceh so that there is effectively no third way between Jakarta and G.A.M.," warns Damien Kingsbury, an Indonesia specialist at Melbourne's Deakin University. Some hope the situation will improve after Indonesia's July 5 presidential election. Retired military chief Wiranto, one of the three leading candidates, told TIME that "the use of force" in Aceh is a mistake, noting: "the problem of Aceh is not a security problem but a problem of conscience...