I'm certainly in favour of another party appearing on the political landscape in Australia - preferably a centrist / small "l" liberal/libertarian party to fill the void left by the Democrats, which isn't beholden to the interest groups that own the Liberal and Labor parties.

I'm not sure how best this could be achieved though - there seems to have been lots of attempts without anyone getting much traction.

Happy to listen to ideas on the topic.

Getting some large scale CSP projects underway is a worthy goal though - I'm hoping the increase in the MRET to 20% gets up, which would be the biggest boost that this aim could receive in the short term.

Ausra have had a few state premiers visit them (as per the Brumby / Bligh visit I mentioned earlier in the week), so hopefully they are already doing some marketing to try and expand back home as well.