Malcolm Turnbull a-twitter

Good on him for getting on Twitter. Politicians need to get onto the social networking because it is a thing of our time and you don't understand the limits and advantages of various social networks unless you actually use them. They can be quite handy tools. They can be powerful. They have their pitfalls you need to learn to negotiate...and then you need to compare and understand which ones operate positively and which ones do not. We have got pollies and Facebook and MySpace. Facebook works very effectively in terms of its capacity to organise and deliver information. Not enough use is made of it. Twitter can deliver information fast, very fast. We need people who are good at this. Like it or not, social networking is 2008.

Boosting Bank Deposits

Image via WikipediaKevin Rudd at least listened to the outcry last week when he was only going to underwrite deposits to 20,000 dollars. That was never going to succeed nor make a difference. To now boost all the bank deposits has made a difference. It is making peole feel safer and it is helping us to stay optimisitic. That Malcolm Turnbull wants to work with the Government in helping stabilise Australia's financial position is good too. We need to be helping each other and we need to be told what we can do to help. We need recommendations and guidelines because we will do it. It has become claear that risky decisions have been made to get quick profit and qucik riches. That approach to finance has blown out world wide and we need to look at the safer options. We have come to realise that global financial stabiltity is very important to everyone. Without it there is mayhem, panic, a lot of personal pain and then a bleak outlook which doesn't help anyone to think their way out of it. Good move.