Comments on: Quick note on the 2020 Summit http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/quick-note-on-the-2020-summit/ Home of Neil (ninglun) in Sydney Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:45:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jim Belshaw http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/quick-note-on-the-2020-summit/#comment-1162 Jim Belshaw Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:41:39 +0000 http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/quick-note-on-the-2020-summit/#comment-1162 With TB, Neil, he sometimes makes me laugh. Otherwise its like water of a duck's back. Cheers Jim With TB, Neil, he sometimes makes me laugh. Otherwise its like water of a duck’s back.

Cheers

Jim

]]> By: ninglun http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/quick-note-on-the-2020-summit/#comment-1159 ninglun Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:49:03 +0000 http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/quick-note-on-the-2020-summit/#comment-1159 I have no great yearning for an elected presidency, I'm afraid. I noted your commendation of TB, by the way, but I really can't stand the man. I find him a total smart-arse. Takes all tastes, of course, and many don't share my revulsion... I have no great yearning for an elected presidency, I’m afraid.

I noted your commendation of TB, by the way, but I really can’t stand the man. I find him a total smart-arse. Takes all tastes, of course, and many don’t share my revulsion…

]]> By: Jim Belshaw http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/quick-note-on-the-2020-summit/#comment-1158 Jim Belshaw Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:05:27 +0000 http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/quick-note-on-the-2020-summit/#comment-1158 Good evening, Neil. Like you, I think that a republic is probably inevitable in the long term. But there is a large group of Australians who, like me, have strong ties to the current system. Further, the system works. As you note, all change creates divisions, as can the absence of change. To get change through you have to build coalitions. When a symbolic issue like the republic becomes central, both the focus and support required to get other change through diminishes. Good evening, Neil. Like you, I think that a republic is probably inevitable in the long term. But there is a large group of Australians who, like me, have strong ties to the current system. Further, the system works.

As you note, all change creates divisions, as can the absence of change. To get change through you have to build coalitions. When a symbolic issue like the republic becomes central, both the focus and support required to get other change through diminishes.

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