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Switzer Daily 28 June 2021 There have been three recent developments in federal politics about which readers may be interested in my opinion. They are: The election of Barnaby Joyce as Nationals leader. My change of view on the election date. Why the Nationals decided to make Ross Cadell a senator-in-waiting for New South Wales. There is great dispute as to whether the Joyce selection strengthens Labor’s chances of winning the forthcoming federal election, reduces those chances or leaves them the same as if the Nationals had stayed with Michael McCormack as leader. My view is that the chan...
Switzer Daily The Liberals won the Tasmanian election as predicted, but what will happen in the next Federal election? 14 May 2021 At 7.30pm Wednesday 12 May the Tasmanian Electoral Commission confirmed the result of the general election held on Saturday 1 May. The Liberal Party won 13 seats, Labor 9, and the Greens 2. The 25 th seat went to the Glenorchy mayor, the independent Kristie Johnston, one of the five female members for the Hobart-based Division of Clark. In the race for that 5 th Clark seat Johnston polled 9,970 votes to 8,716 for the defeated independent Sue Hickey. The other four...
Switzer Daily 27 April 2021 China is aggressively punishing our coal producers to possibly hit the Morrison Government in an election that could happen this year. This story, which shouldn’t be happening, is the greatest reason for knowing how to invest like a champion. And being diversified is one way to be a hotshot investor. But back to the coal story and how it shows you how to make money by not losing money on the stock market. Ironically, Warren Buffett, one of the greatest investors ever, either got it wrong, was misquoted or misunderstood when he said: “Diversification is protecti...