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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 7:21 pm
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Originally Posted by RadioGirl
That said, I still have a bit of optimism about this. It's nearly April and the "by early 2011" goal has passed, so they're certainly not rushing into it. Also, a lot has changed since the press release a year ago announcing the NoS. The Labor Party took a pounding at the NSW state election this weekend, and at the national level, the Labor party holds power by a very narrow margin after the election last August. The uproar in the US may have dampened their enthusiasm. So they may be (or not??) a bit more cautious than when this was first planned.
Unlike the US Gvernment, it sounds like there may be a few people in Australia that still have some amount of common sense.
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