Hence its being the 2nd colony, after New South Wales. Tasmania is strategically important, like Cuba. 'The mainland' paid a high price to get Tasmania into the Australian federation ~1900. It is also easy to chat to senators and other pollies here in Hobart, the state capital. We are only half a million (40% of whom are public servants), but our senators often hold the balance of power in the national Senate, as Andrew does at present. Gave him plums from our plum tree both times.Īndrew is our local senator here in Tasmania, the most politically over-represented State in the whole world.
I had two long chats with him in his carpet shop about my inventions at. Climate Change is almost entirely natural, not man made, as explained at I know Andrew quite well. Oh, our biggest problem right now is post-modernism and its problem child Environmentalism, now gone mad. I believe in Australia for the same and other reasons. I see the personal tragedy, but believe that the best thing to tax is sin, and that private institutions such as those funded by gambling are at least as good and important as governmental ones.Īpart from that, I believe in the US, mostly because of how US Americans have such great business sense. The gambling industry is a big political issue in Australia right now, mostly due to Andrew Wilkie's stand to enforce limits.
