Skeptics say they need to track additional measures, like the babies' long-term cognitive development.
He cites measures like the Business Bank, and the Green Investment Bank.
Today the unwritten constitution allows parliament broad powers to enact measures like the enhanced majority.
Measures like the number of operations a surgeon has done "still matter a lot," he said.
By contrast, the balancing revenue-raising measures, like the clampdown on tax avoiders, contain assumptions, conjecture and hope.
But it is surveillance measures like the secret warrants that have most concerned even stalwart Republicans like Phil Kent.
Marketers are focusing on quantitative measures, like the cost per click, as opposed to qualitative ones, like brand perception.
And he reiterated his call for the state government to approve measures like the city's sale of Off-Track Betting.
Confidence in social work has been undermined, helping deeply worrying measures like the privatisation of child protection gain approval.
Some of the new measures, like the self-explanatory Happy Planet Index (H.P.I ., you might have heard about.
