>You might be interested in the latest news from here, where the
>Greens have just made significant political gains. Here's a brief
>report I wrote up for someone else:
>
>For those interested in proportional representation etc, the news is
>that Tasmania went to the polls on Saturday. The state Labor
>government headed by Premier Jim Bacon romped back with a landslide
>win, crushing the main opposition Liberal party.
When we were in Tasmania last year, someone told us that the Greens had put much of the logging and paper industries out of business with nothing to replace them, disemploying lots of people. The sad casino in Hobart was an attempt to compensate for the job loss. Is this true? Our informant, though otherwise a splendid fellow, prefers reading Deleuze to the newspaper, so I'm not sure his info is entirely solid.
Doug