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Glee abounds on the Labor side of Australian politics. The Opposition is high on a bubble of sparkling opinion polls. Bring on the election! Party leader Kevin Rudd speaks and moves with the authority of an alternative Prime Minister, something his folk have not heard and seen for some time. Last week in Canberra, P.M. John Howard delivered a talk called "Building Prosperity: The Challenge of Economic Management." Same night, same city, Rudd gave a speech on "Prosperity Beyond the Mining Boom" to a business lobby group. In the printed drafts, Rudd's speech is more tightly spaced...
...draw Howard even further out of his comfort zone, Labor is dropping in former TV presenter Maxine McKew to challenge the P.M. in his electorate of Bennelong in suburban Sydney. Did anyone really believe Labor's new prima ballerina would be wasted as a strategic operative in Rudd's huddle? The gregarious McKew will be a hit with voters, especially those who swing between Labor and the Greens. Perhaps those dwelling in cement-rendered Putney mansions will opt for the well-heeled woman from Mosman instead of the man from Kirribilli who invites Dick Cheney over for a beer. Every...
...recent change to divisional boundaries has brought to Bennelong people from poorer suburbs to the west and cut Howard's buffer to 4%. While Labor sniffs a chance to win, the P.M. is just as likely to think of the new entrants as future converts to the Howard doctrine. There is a sharp whiff of Shanghai exuberance around Labor. Just as in China's stock exchanges, the local political market will eventually turn to reflect fundamental laws. The Australian electorate is ultimately conservative. Issues such as the war in Iraq and the five-year Guant?namo incarceration of David Hicks...
...Senate committee yesterday to support proposed legislation further regulating the tobacco industry, which he said has been increasing the levels of nicotine in their products over the past nine years. Professor of the Practice of Public Health Gregory N. Connolly spoke before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in favor of granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. In his testimony, Connolly—who was recruited by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) to speak yesterday—stated that tobacco companies...
...that skill is still in the service of a military that is, as the name says, a self-defense force - with most of the actual force provided by Japan's omnipresent American allies, treaty-bound to defend Japan. (The division of labor is obvious at Iwakuni - the U.S. keeps nearly half of the base to itself, shares most of the rest with Japan, which solely operates only 0.5% of the property.) Still, as the country's politics change to allow a more assertive foreign policy, Japan may not remain a stealth military power for long...