It’s time for the Monday Message Board, where you get to post your comments on any topic (civilised discussion and no coarse language, please). My suggested discussion starter – Peter Costello, soon-to-be PM?
"I do not know how he is a professor, but anyway he purports to be an economist" Senator Richard Alston, ex-Minister for Communications
"One of the elder statesmen of the Oz blogosphere" - Age Media Blog
"More intelligent than Britney Spears"Jason Soon
"The great neo-classical iconoclast"Ross Gittins
"A green activist with a totalitarian mindset", editorial, The Australian
"would argue under a pile of wet statistics and produces more copy than Xerox". Stephen Matchett in the Australian
"the odd Quiggan (sic) is good mental exercise; all part of life's rich tapestry et al."Peter Jonson
"Wrong", "incorrect", "off the mark again" Institute for Public Affairs, Institute for Private Enterprise, Centre for Independent Studies etc.
"Never wrong"Tim Blair
"A compassionate exponent of the dismal science" Stewart Fist
"An indispensable weblog"Bear Left
"Quiggin strikes me as the stereotype of an Australian - joyful, hearty, and not particularly aware of his own strength."SomeCallMeTim
"Krugman of the Antipodes"Christopher Joye
" ... his chief delight was drinking cups of coffee at odd hours" Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
Tomorrow’s scheduled Newspoll looms large.
Purely subjective assessment of course, but just for the fun of it as I’m a compulsive assessor of probabilities…
Chance of Costello challenging Howard: 40%
Chance of Costello winning a leadership challenge: 45%
Chance of Costello defeating Latham in a Federal election: 50%