"95% of the day traders were from interstate and as they don't...

"95% of the day traders were from interstate and as they don't vote for him he is not worried as to what they think or do"

.....not to many pollies are going to take their direction from day traders - the bigger issue in giving to rio is the media creating a deal over the wa govt favouing "big business" and raising the specture of "wa inc" all over again, especially following the recent attention given to brian burke & his follwers in the past couple of months

of course comes back to how does rio's commercial interest = wa public interest, good luck explaining that to a cynical public at election time