"The government is best which governs least".
It is time for an engaged Australia to ensure that our new government - as Abbott himself phrased it last night - "governs for all Australians".
Civil libertarians have also pointed out that the language of section 215 of the Patriot Act governs the collection of data, not its analysis.
I know what the Yes camp's answer will be (that Labour sometimes governs on Celtic majorities at Westminster), but such a result will not be easy to manage.
Internationally, in the wake of the Yom Kippur war, energy prices went up four-fold, and in 1973-74 there was renewed conflict with the NUM, the slide into the three-day week and the February 1974 election, called around the slogan, "Who governs?" The answer turned out to be Wilson, after a near dead-heat between the Labour and the Conservatives.
But it gave away a valuable weapon in Cameron's hand, one he might well have used to sort out the "who governs?" issue instead of running a protracted, unwanted, long election campaign this past year.
The force of Lagarde's statement reveals the weakness of the stance taken by the radical leftist Syriza party, which governs Greece, in negotiations over the past four months.
The SDLP assembly member for north Belfast added: "A financial reward for carrying out an abortion is incompatible with the spirit of our legal framework, which governs abortions.
In Denmark's 2011 election the centre-right Venstre finished as the largest party, but the second-placed Social Democrats successfully put together the three-party minority coalition that governs the country.
Until just a few years ago, an Italian in London was invariably greeted by giggles and jokes about "bunga-bunga", but since Mario Monti has been in government, we've been considered rather more serious and reliable by Downing Street and in the City (thus creating the widespread impression that things can even get better if Italians do not actually vote for who governs them).
American firms can incorporate in any state, and that state's company law governs the firm throughout America.
