After watching Q and A last night as well as listening
to Penny Wong's speech in Fiji, and our PM's performance
at the QUAD meeting - I feel that our newly elected
government is doing very well.

I'm also optimistic about legislation being able to be
passed in Parliament - the negotiation skills and
flexibility of our new leaders points to success.

So relieved with the general lay of the land thus far!

Aidan,

Mean girl Tanya's comment was pure spite.

Electricity costs are sure to rocket up under labor's renewable splurge as cheap coal plants are shut and ratepayers are stuck paying off huge subsidies.

Finally, if you'd looked up the curriculum for economic geography you would have seen that it has nothing to do with geoinformatics and is a high-level mathematical treatment of economics to a level that a muppet like Albozo couldn't grasp.

SM became a highly paid MD and Albozo became a Labor lackey.

shadowminister,

And despite your "assessment - Scott Morrison will
be on the backbench and Anthony Albanese is our new
Prime Minister!

Life is sweet for some!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_geography

In a sense Aiden could be right about Economic Geography being related to Geoinformatics but given the Maths/ Computing heavy nature of this field it makes me respect Prime Minister Scott Morrison even more.

But ShadowMinister you're right too- Economic Geography according to the wiki article doesn't always relate to Geography but to "social, cultural, and institutional factors in the spatial economy".

"There are varied methodological approaches. Neoclassical location theorists, following in the tradition of Alfred Weber, tend to focus on industrial location and use quantitative methods. Since the 1970s, two broad reactions against neoclassical approaches have significantly changed the discipline: Marxist political economy, growing out of the work of David Harvey; and the new economic geography which takes into account social, cultural, and institutional factors in the spatial economy."

Interesting that Marxism has influenced this field since the 70's.

But it's always best to go back to source documentation- in this case PM Morrison's thesis- but of course an Honour's Thesis isn't at the same level as a Masters/ PhD.

The point that Morrison's thesis was more "Mathy" explains perhaps his apparently more introspective character. Mathy people tend to be more spurgy- sometimes that's a good thing- Bill Gates for example has been accused of being a bit spurgy.

"Albo not having held an economic portfolio"- standard bitch fight- the truth doesn't matter- just the points- anyone in politics at ministerial level has certain skill sets- doesn't mean they don't have biases and delusions. ScoMo perhaps has better contextual perspicacity.

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Interesting point on the tax dodges Aiden.
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The world doesn't have an energy problem- it has an energy storage problem.

It's inevitable that the Fox(y) and friends would "sink the boot in" at any perceived setback- and they'll always try to frame anything as a setback- cognitive dissonance- as they say when you get knocked down you get back up- hopefully the communists won't keep us down forever. George Orwell talked about "a boot on the head of everyone forever". I'm not sure that Foxy and friends will have the heart to take the "kicks to the head" when it's their turn.

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The Left obviously have an effective propaganda campaign and electioneering system- that they can take Marxist ideals and repackage them- perhaps not all Marxists are aware- we need to highlight the hypocrisy to the population- we need to understand our enemy for the interest of the people- we have a lot of disinformation to overcome. There are many that don't understand where they get their dinner

The Nazi needs to alert the populace to the dangers of the "communists" taking over.