2. Trying not to hyperventilate.
3. ABC TV coverage.
4. Shrieking, one way or another.
5. The Greens' election night shindig in North Melbourne.
6. Huge fuck-off-Howard (hopefully) piss-up at Trades Hall bar til the wee small hours.
7. Hopefully get a celebratory root, or at least a snog.
8. Streaking optional.
Yes, I know I wrote this as a comment on RYWHM yesterday, but I'm overworked at the moment and couldn't think of anything else to write here today. So sue me. Actually, don't - I have no life savings to speak off, only a stupidly large collection of CDs by obscure indie bands and lots, LOTS of books. I could possibly spare something from my collection of 80s fantasy novels I suppose...
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Richard,
On Saturday night I am planning lines of coke from the coffee table and bottles and bottles of bubbles from the bar fridge.
If all goes bad, I have a bag packed and floaties and I have a vague understanding that NZ is somewhere SE of Melbourne.
Remember this Saturday we are voting to evict.
"Rudd - Don't Fuck Up" I think he already has by today's news story that 13 Labor candidates are ineligible because they did not resign from their public jobs. Labor are hopeless. They can't even manage their own candidates let alone a whole country!
Even if the 13 seats are messed up, they don't go to the Liberals automatically anyway -- they go to a bi-election. Personally I think the Liberals trying this sort of strategy is likely to lose them votes anyway. Bringing up miniscule technicalities to try and over turn elected people is really just going shit people off.
actually, i think my little street is the perfect size for a meredith-gift-style celebratory mass-streak. good-o!
x
mskp - so be it: streakers r us - but be warned, i've done the meredith gift so nothing phases me now!!
anon - have you read today's age?
"There are a range of Labor candidates who, on existing public record searches … are still listed as working for state government departments, for state MPs, for state ministers and for state and other public service authorities," Mr Robb said.
But The Age spoke to 11 of the candidates yesterday, who said the allegations were "utter nonsense", "absolute rubbish" and "a pathetic stunt", and that they had resigned according to the rules.
"This is an act of desperation by the conservatives. They would say or do anything," Mr Neumann said. Mr Conway, second on Labor's ACT senate ticket described the Liberal allegations as "gutter politics of the worst kind".
I couldn't agree more.
As to claiming that 'they can't manage their own candidates let alone a whole country', the Age today also has a great article by former PM Bob Hawke - not a man I especially admire, but from which I think the following is worth repeating:
"Who, as treasurer, had responsibility for economic management for more than five years before I was elected on March 5, 1983? John Winston Howard. I knew that he was handing me the worst legacy in terms of unemployment and inflation in Australia's history; both were at 11%. But I didn't know exactly how bad the projected budget deficit was, because he had refused to come clean on this during the campaign.
On Sunday, March 5, I called in the secretary of the Treasury, John Stone, who told me that the projected figure for 1983-4 was $9.6 billion, the largest in our history; equivalent today as a percentage of GDP to more than $40 billion. Stone pointed out that "the budget balance is projected to deteriorate from near zero to more than 6% of GDP in a two-year period. The speed and magnitude of that deterioration is almost without precedent among the major OECD countries in the postwar period". Stone was no Labor stooge — he went on to become a Nationals senator — and his written judgement was that Howard's performance was virtually the worst anywhere in the developed world since 1945."
Thanks, Bob. Over to you, anon.
I actually like Bob Hawke and even Paul Keating. Both were great leaders. I also loved their arrogance at times which I think is essential to be a leader and they knew how to control the unions. I fear that Kevin Rudd has none of those leadership qualities. Neither does Gillard. The teachers strike is the first of many strikes by unions I fear after Rudd wins on Saturday. It's as if the teachers wanted to get in early with the strike before the other unions. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Maybe you are not aware of this anonymous, but the teachers are under control of the state governments, not the federal one, which means neither Rudd nor Howard in power is going to make much difference. (you can add hospitals to that category also, incidentally).
The other thing you might want to consider is whether they have a legitamate right to complain or whether they are just greedy and striking because they can. I tend to think it is the first of these, since there is of course a teacher shortage, which is in part caused by the poor wages/conditions that they have. Its not like other areas, say, like doctors, where the number of training places is hugely restricted.
8. Streaking optional.
This happened at the party I was at and I have the pictures to prove it! I didn't post the ones of ?? dancing naked on top of her car.
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