That was Tony Abbott at the launch of a new book by the Australian's editor at large, Paul Kelly. Kelly has contended in his newly published history of the Rudd/Gillard Labor period that Australia's political system is malfunctioning because it no longer delivers the reaching reform we need it to deliver.
In adulthood steering a malfunctioning relationship towards new horizons can feel like an insurmountable challenge.
Historic news from United States of America, where the White House must now formulate its response to a petition calling for malfunctioning pop overlord Justin Bieber to be deported back to Canada whence he came.
That may well be the fate for some bold proposals for reforming welfare from the Centre for Social Justice, a right-leaning think-tank established by Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader.Its new report argues that a malfunctioning benefits system lies at the root of many social evils.
Several hundred marched through the city, some performing Nazi salutes and chanting "Sieg, heil!" The usual paraphernalia of Russian demonstrations went with them: malfunctioning metal detectors, hordes of riot police in rickety buses.
Georgia's problem was not lack of pluralism but a malfunctioning state, which Mr Saakashvili is still the best man to fix.
"IF HE were proven to be malfunctioning, I wouldn't see how we'd have any choice but disconnection".
Malfunctioning states inhibited growth because property rights were insecure and infrastructure was worse.But why was it that land in precolonial Africa was so abundant, and people were so scarce?
DIALYSIS the use of machinery to make up for malfunctioning kidneys is among medicine's least loved treatments, both to endure and to administer.
They are a symptom of India's corrupt and malfunctioning state: thriving, in poor and crowded parts of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, where the district administration is weakest.
In June 2010 a tiny antivirus firm in Belarus stumbled upon Stuxnet while investigating a malfunctioning machine in Iran.
