http://www.alexanderdowner.com.auAlexander Downer MPCopyright 2007, Authorised by Alexander Downer MP, 20 Druids Avenue, Mt Barker, SA 5251I shall be resigning from the Federal Parliament as the Member for Mayo from the close of business on Monday, 14 July 2008 ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2366Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMTThere are three sorts of politician; the communitarian who wants to represent and argue for his or her local community and has no real ambition for promotion to Cabinet; the opportunist who sees politics as a way of achieving celebrity status and ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2364Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMTThere are three sorts of politician; the communitarian who wants to represent and argue for his or her local community and has no real ambition for promotion to Cabinet; the opportunist who sees politics as a way of achieving celebrity status and ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2365Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMTAll of us dream, or we ought to anyway. I don’t mean dreaming when we sleep but dreaming about how our lives might change or how our society should be ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2362Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTAll of us dream, or we ought to anyway. I don’t mean dreaming when we sleep but dreaming about how our lives might change or how our society should be ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2363Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTVancouver’s a bleak place in late autumn and early winter ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2361Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMTLate last week I spoke to 300 students in Adelaide about political leadership ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2359Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMTPolitics is a tough business to be in ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2360Mon, 26 May 2008 01:00:00 GMTI welcome the recent announcement by businessman Edwin Michell and wife Dr Patricia Bishop to restore the historic Marble Hill.Marble Hill, used for many years as the Governor’s summer residence, has remained a grand skeleton of a mansion ever since ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2358Tue, 20 May 2008 05:00:00 GMTLast week, while we Australians were contemplating our new government’s first budget, Britain was debating Cherie Blair’s memoirs ...http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2357Mon, 19 May 2008 00:30:00 GMT