Here's a follow-up chat with Greens supporter Chris from the inner city seat of Sydney. We discuss likely scenarios pertaining to the Greens holding the Senate balance of power from next July. Other passengers I’ve spoken to reflect the strong result for the Greens in Saturday’s poll when many Labor supporters switched across in protest...
New Cabpoll now up at ninemsn...
Motorists approaching the Anzac Bridge yesterday were greeted by a monster billboard imploring voters to reject Tony Abbott. "He's just too big a risk", it blared, suggesting he's an economic flake.
Today's Cabpoll...
As the broadband issue finally came to life this week most passengers were supportive of the Government's NBN proposal as compared to the Opposition's alternative solution. It seems to be a question of do we invest less only to spend more later, or spend up now for the best system...
Also here's a recent radio interview on Canberra's 2CC.
Today's Cabpoll online now...
It has been difficult to find passengers supporting the Government’s re-election without them automatically resorting to anti-Abbott diatribes to justify their position.
New Cabpoll now up at ninemsn election site...
Approaching the halfway point of the election campaign, the emerging feeling among passengers is annoyance and waning interest after being swamped by personalities, leaks, banality, leaks, denials and more leaks...
Well the annual blog sabbatical is over and I return with an update of my new routine.
Whilst I haven’t been blogging the mammoth task of collating and editing some 600 Cablog stories is now well underway, so I haven’t been entirely lazy. Given I now have a dedicated office and the perfect environment for such a laborious task it was time to finally start the job.
The move to the North Coast is now well and truly bedded down and all is good, if somewhat dislocating. However relocating does not mean one automatically finds an equivalent wage in the country, hence my continuing to work in the city until something better eventuates.
As I explained to a passenger last night, I don't expect to live in paradise and demand the Government support me in lieu of work. It’s a simple matter of one must go where the money is.
To wit, the above passenger was a
Generally I work three consecutive shifts over the weekend interspersed with many breaks and a good sleep at my brother’s home. And being a relief driver I do extra shifts whilst other drivers take holidays.
In fact I’m presently working full weeks, despite having only three weeks remaining on my good behaviour period for loss of license points. To date I’ve kept out of trouble and last night calculated I have some 4,000 taxi kilometers left before recovering my full points, touch wood.
This current period has fortunately coincided with the Federal election campaign where once again I’m operating Cabpoll for ninemsn. The first video interview is up today and can be found here and will appear twice weekly. Otherwise I hope to return to normal blogging after the election campaign.
Finally, many thanks for the reader comments and emails with best wishes over my sabbatical.
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