The whole thing shows that if you have a basic contempt for the idea of government — that you wanted it to be small enough to “get it in the bathtub and drown it” — then it will come back at with you with failure that threatens the very basis of orderly life itself. California’s getting a lesson in that.

 — Guy Rundle in Crikey: What’s happened to the once great state of California?

Given the fortunes spent in the nation’s Parliament, and Kevin Rudd’s professed desired for more transparency in government, it seems absurd that volunteers are left to do the job any self-respecting parliament would have done long ago.

via Interests of MPs to go online - it’s about time.