egging you on, would I not? In fact, in some blogs, both left and right, some of the posters supposedly supporting the site are just so repulsive that it is more than possible that they are opposition plants. My point is, if you were to think for a second before attacking the keyboard, was that most people see themselves as being of the centre, whether they are or not. However, have you checked with people who are in the centre? So, how does one know that one is not proceeding along wrapped up in one's Catallaxy Cocoon, or the equivalent left wing hive mind as far as the general population is concerned? The thing is that an election campaign was fought against the GST, so it was kind of by definition more hysterical. It certainly got a lot more airplay. You may recall Paul Keating (who had campaigned for a 15% GST and John Hewson's 'Fightback' contained something like 20 pages of commentary from Keating on its utter indispensability to our economic progress) talking about the 10% GST as a "monster tax". Arr, Pedro, I would also add that the NBN and the Coalition alternative are pretty much the same too. So you can add that to your list. Does not change the fact though, that while there are plenty of areas of agreement between the two major parties, the ALP and the Coalition have important policies that are out of whack with the centre. The ALP to the left,