The WEP's first call, for quotas to bring a 50-50 balance to parliament, is a "quick fix measure", she said.
"While ever the government sees the tax as a budget fix measure, and while ever the opposition and crossbenchers see it as a political edge, we won't get an outcome," Mahar said.
While Simon Cowell can take some credit for maintaining the nation's TV fix (measured at three hours and 45 minutes per day), another factor is the growing demand for time-shifted viewing, thanks to digital video recorders as well as catch-up TV services such as the BBC iPlayer or ITV Player.
In recent days the government has announced a series of quick-fix measures, like raising gasoline prices and lowering subsidies on electricity usage, to save money.
The record floods of 1791 reached a height of 14 feet (4.3 metres) above the fixed measuring point, Ordnance Datum at London Bridge; those of 1953 rose to 17.7 feet (5.4 metres).
Yet the competitive nature of sport means that a country may be going backwards even when it is going forwards: that is, it may be raising its standards against fixed measuring sticks, but other countries may be raising their standards faster.
Earlier slipper test rigs suffer from two main drawbacks: inverse kinematics of the slipper and fixed measured positions.
Once again, this technique ignores variations in anatomy and using only fixed measured distance does not seem to be optimal.
Recall that when considering discontinuous solutions, a fixed measure-driven problem can have solution in one sense and not to have solutions in another sense.
This CMM is based on the principle of multi-lateration whereby spatial coordinates are determined solely from measurements of displacement of a moving probe relative to a number, probably as many as eight, of fixed measuring stations.
The results of the fixed (measure of association) effects were presented as odds ratio (OR) at their 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).
