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...Howard government was new to this majority owner/regulator caper. Still, there was no reason to think it would not learn to cater to its new share-owning constituency. Today, around 1 in 9 voters is a Telstra shareholder; it's a broad group, to be sure, but like a majority of asset-rich Australians, these T-people tend to vote for the John Howard?led Coalition. Just last week, a survey by Roy Morgan Research showed that the government has very strong support among its joint-venture partners in the telco: 71% of Telstra shareholders surveyed supported the Howard government...
...House prices are the key to how Australian voters feel about their wealth. Full stop." Among existing homeowners, only those who bought late in the boom in Sydney or Melbourne are unhappy, more likely with themselves than with the government?though, having campaigned to keep interest rates low, the Howard government has watched the Reserve Bank raise official interest rates three times since the October 2004 election...
...this play, although there are stragglers who missed happy hour and paid $7.40 (in T2, touted as a "great deal" by the P.M.) to join the Telstra party. Worried that it would miss its opportunity to sell out of the telco (a long-held aim of the Conservatives), the Howard government announced on Aug. 25 that another public share offer would go ahead. T3 will sell about 21.8% of the company, worth some $8 billion; the remaining 30% will be transferred to the so-called Future Fund that underwrites the unfunded retirement-benefit liabilities of public servants...
...population of world No. 2 is larger than you might think. A Scripps-Howard poll of 1,010 adults last month found that 36% of Americans consider it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that government officials either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks themselves. Thirty-six percent adds up to a lot of people. This is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream political reality...
Bravo to Klein for noting that "The real alternative to Bush's Republican extremism isn't Democratic extremism. It is bipartisan moderation." Now all you need to do is suggest a few potential Democratic contenders who embody that ideal. Kerry? Gore? Hillary? Howard Dean?! Having gored Joe Lieberman, the Democrats have demonstrated they don't tolerate "bipartisan patriotism" and will destroy any card carrier who evinces such an admirable trait. VINCE ZICCARDI San Antonio, Texas...