Petrol prices maybe the decider. The mine tax will hit the economy before it is implemented unless significant changes are announced. Rudd had said Indian students were hurt by the strong dollar and that the new tax would reduce the value of the AUD. Well this is already happening and will increase bowser prices. Reserve bank is now using intervention to increase the exchange rate so a war between Rudd and Reserve Bank is on. Who will win? Higher fuel prices, higher interest rates and higher cigarette prices is a lot of money out of the economy and may cause unemployment. then defaults starts, blah, blah. Ok to spend like a madman but collection day has arrived.

Except, Peter, that it's impossible to make a 'poor copy' of a system BEFORE the person who allegedly invented the system was even born- which goes for both Athenian and Roman democrats.