See comment in forum thread "Don't let Peter Beattie save John Howard's political hide" at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=884#15557 .

I notice no response from Paul Reynolds. That says it all, doesn't it ?
Measnwhile indefatigable Dagget instead carries the day as to logic. Sadly, the process exemplified most spectacularly by the Lib/Lab Tasmanian gerrymander of the late 'nineties that robbed the Greens of balance of power in Tasmania and that state of a useful handbreak against untrammelled vandalism, is applied right across the three tiers of government and universally at local government level.T hat's apart from more spectacular global examples like Iraq- a s ort of fourth tier.
All top down rather than emanating from the grassrooots. All part of the hegemonisation "harmonisation" imposed by local Quislings at diffeent levels on behalf of by that unhappy mix of greed, incompetence,self absorbtion and ideology that currently has the stockmarkets on the verge of inflicting a nasty recession on the world's poor.
That is, wretched neoliberal globalisation.