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While Leverett House Master Howard Georgi ’67 acknowledged that putting students in DeWolfe was not ideal, he agreed that the decision made sense given Leverett’s location...
...political devotees, Bennelong is an indigenous word meaning Middle Australia: average, mainstream, "aspirational." Howard knows how his constituents think and act because he is one of them. First elected to federal Parliament in 1974, he has traveled well beyond his origins and his own family's home on the city's comfortable North Shore. But the P.M. has never lost his bearings on the area he represents, even as it has been transformed by wealth and Asian immigration. In fact, Bennelong is Howard's touchstone for the get-ahead and assimilating migrants he believes are the key to national cohesion...
...that has re-kitted Australia in the Plasma Age; in the food court, Anglo-Australians eat noodles and Indochinese go for burgers, fried chicken and donuts. It's retail Disneyland, free of menace, with a throng of brisk walkers. Shoppers here have money but not a lot of time. Howard is a security blanket for the striving class. People feel that he is not only sympathetic to their ends, he is prepared to support the means as well. Life for swing voters and migrants in Bennelong is the quest for a larger home or to build a business; the after...
...recent change to divisional boundaries has brought to Bennelong people from poorer suburbs to the west and cut Howard's buffer to 4%. While Labor sniffs a chance to win, the P.M. is just as likely to think of the new entrants as future converts to the Howard doctrine. There is a sharp whiff of Shanghai exuberance around Labor. Just as in China's stock exchanges, the local political market will eventually turn to reflect fundamental laws. The Australian electorate is ultimately conservative. Issues such as the war in Iraq and the five-year Guant?namo incarceration of David Hicks...
...lately been returning to taxpayers. Again, the simple rules of politics apply. While there's a great deal of public interest in water policy, WorkChoices, global warming, nuclear energy, education, health and national security to keep the dinner conversations pumping, recent elections have always come down to the economy. Howard and Rudd want voters to remember their names when they think about words like "prosperity" and "future." Unemployment is at 4.5%; inflation seems to be in check, but another rise in interest rates is still possible. "Our economy is not a bunch of abstract statistics," Howard told his Menzies Research...