We have a state election coming up on the 23rd of March. That's...uh...one month.
(Dear Lord, let the Liberal/National party lose - they're the conservative/big business/ruralists/nationalists coalition for those of you wondering - not that Labor will be all that much better but I am so tired of Gladys the former Tranport Minister trying to put a nice shine on it. Seriously, it's not gonna work, Gladys. Seriously. Stop. Just, no.)
And there's a federal election coming up...sometime this year.
The Wikipedia page on the
2019 Federal Election says:
The next election must be held by 18 May 2019 for half of the Senate and on or before 2 November 2019 for the House of Representatives and Territory Senators. An election will not be held earlier than 33 days after it is called, and will take place on a Saturday.
Did you know that there was an election coming up in Australia? Because I sure didn't and I live here and I have to (legally, am registered, compulsory) vote. (On the other hand, you can hardly ignore the fact that there's an election coming up in America in....oh...18 months. Even in Australia.)
I don't always love my country, but DAMN sometimes I do.
On the other hand, our options are...not great.
Bill Shorten (Labor Leader of the Opposition - the opposition counterpart to the Prime Minister) is...whitebread. Like, not horrendous supermarket mass-marketed whitebread of Scott Morrison (or the fake-y trying-to-be-real-but-eurgh-no potatobread of Peter Dutton, or the dough-y half-bakedness of Barnaby Joyce), but maybe the Baker's Delight kind of bread that tries to sell itself as a cut above the rest but is really not all that different to the supermarket kind. Marginally less offensive. Just...nothing special.
I did rather like the mock campaign by SBS's The Feed that has presented Mrs. Shorten as the key figure in the Labor government:
VOTE FOR CHLOE SHORTEN...'s husband.