Yes recrimination abounds but the quote of the early morning news must go to the Liberal Christopher Pyne.

Mr Pyne the Member for Sturt has stated on ABC Radio National that Prime Minister Gillard lacks legitimacy because she has not been elected Prime Minister by the Australian people. Excuse me but this is not America, this is Australia and we operate under the Westminster System.

For Mr Pyne’s information the people of Australia vote for a political party to form Government. The party with the most seats in the House of Representatives then elects their party leader to the position of Prime Minister. If the Member for Sturt wishes to see a popularly elected Prime Minister or President for that matter, he should come forth and state his Republican credentials and propose the required referendum to amend the Constitution. Otherwise he should check the legitimacy of his facts before making public statements about the political system which he serves.

Indeed we do live in interesting times.

Where the moralist would be filled with indignation and the tragic poet with pity and terror, mythology breaks the whole of life into a vast, horrendous Divine Comedy. Its Olympian laugh is not escapist in the least, but hard, with the hardness of life itself – which, may take it, is the hardness of God, the Creator. Mythology, in this respect, makes the tragic attitude seem somewhat hysterical, and the merely moral judgment, short-sighted. Jsohep Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

These words herald the end of absurdity. With these words sanity has been restored to the Nation. Whether the country resumes routine transmission remains to be seen.

Sanity has prevailed. I have no illusion that the Labor party if fault free if you have read any post of mine in the past few weeks you would realise that the pursuit of power for powers sake nearly destroyed the stability and ethical fabric of the nation.

The people require change, or do they? Only time will tell what will come of all this.

But for now rejoice the Mad Monk and his clique of bankrupt Neo Cons will not grab the reigns of power.

Mr Carr has stated that the Liberal member for Wentworth Malcolm Turnbull (the Squire of Wentworth, Australia’s very own member of the House of Medici) should be made a Cabinet Minister in the next Gillard Government. This when you give it some thought is a stroke of pure genius, Machiavelli 101 in theory and practice. This is real politic in action, are you listening Sussex Street!

The only (future) conceivable threat to both the Prime Minister and the Mad Monk (for that matter) is effectively neutralised. And it sets a fire in the ranks of the coalition by his tacit approval with any Government action that falls within his portfolio. Above all could the Squire of Wentworth refuse such an offer? ‘The nation needs you Malcolm, you can not abandon her now.’

Such an action would be seen as being beneficial to the stability of the nation. Of course the Squire of Wentworth would be praised for his actions, for by joining the Labor Government in the Ministry he has set aside petty party politics and is focusing on the big picture. As to whose big picture is another question.

Some may think like that the Mad Monk is entrenched in the position of PM in waiting and that 41-40 vote which saw the Mad Monk defeat the Squire of Wentworth has seen a decisive sea change swinging support further in his favour. After all the Mad Monk nearly won an election that the fools in the NSW Labor Right handed him on a plate.

Such action on the part of the Gillard Government demonstrates to the public that Labor is prepared to be inclusive to ensure the stability of the nation. After all if he does accept and takes the role of cabinet minister, what would happen if he were forced into a position where he disagrees with Labor Policy?

I mean what choice would he have? Resign? And we know what political wilderness he would be banished too. What comes to mind is the frozen wasteland of Dante’s Inferno Ninth Circle of Hell?

Yes these are strange days for as the ancient Greeks stated, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” And we know that you should keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

Yes indeed we do live in interesting times. But I for one just wish it would end and normal transmission would resume. Only time will tell and its only Monday(sigh!)

The text of the article can be found here http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/gillard-urged-to-appoint-malcolm-turnbull-to-cabinet-20100906-14x4k.html

A country road. A tree. Evening.
“And what did he reply?”
“That he will see.”
“That he had to think it over.”
“In the quite of his home.”
“Consult his family.”
“His friends.”
“His agents.”
“His Books.”
“His bank account.”
“Before making a decision.”
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Act 1.

The Australian nation has been plunged into an absurdist drama following the inclusive result of the federal election. It is now two weeks since the people voted and we do not have a government.

The backlash against Labor has been diagnosed by the pundits and seers of the political class as a protest vote, a vote against the State Governments of Queensland and NSW. A vote by some voters who find the fact that a godless atheist would be Prime Minister. A vote for the future. A vote for the Greens. A vote for what no one in particular has been able to work out exactly what it was all about.

Personally my take on this whole sorry imbroglio I think its vote against the fools and mandarins of Sussex Street the faceless men who shafted Kevin Rudd. These astute political power brokers who in their amoral pursuit of power for powers sake, have by their own deeds and actions destroyed the credibility of the Labor party. After all just look what the NSW Right has done with Labor in NSW. Mind you these apparatchiks and egotists are the people who forced Kevin Rudd in the backfilp over the Emissions Trading Scheme. Which had the direct effect of causing his ratings in the polls to collapse. And lets face it politicians live and die in the glare of public perception. Yes politics is about polls not values, not ethics, not effective governance but how the public image of a politician is perceived and registered by voters as viewed through the analytical lens of Newspoll and Neilsen and Morgan Research.

What ever the reasons Labor failed to obtain a majority as a nation we are up the creek in a barbwire canoe.

Or are we?

The wheels of government still turn the masses are not rioting there are no food queues, or national strikes by students or workers. Everything is the same but difference is that our political system is being held ransom to indecisiveness.

The Australian newspaper in a poll states that the majority of the voters they polled want Labor to govern. The SMH states that the majority of votes they polled want Labor to govern. What is going on here? Strange days indeed.

Or as the ancient Chinese curse states “May you live in interesting times.” But here in Australia we have a few good curses of our own. “May your Chook’s eggs turn to Emus and kick your dunny door down.” Yes that is what has happened. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

I know the gravitas of the situation and frankly I am scared for the future of the nation. If the Mad Monk and his ideologues get in, so hence the facetious nature of this post. We all deal with fear and uncertainty in our manner. Its just that the absurdity of the current situation just makes me laugh then weep.

This Sunday morning on ABC radio nation, one prominent Liberal hack was barking on about how Labor is the cause of all the evil in the world. No mention of the how Labor effectively saved the country from the ravages of the GFC. No this hack is barking on about Labor being ineffectual about boarder protection and boat people. Tell me this the 21st Century? Or is this the century of fear? So then what do these bankrupt Neo-Cons do? Resort to fear, in the 1950’s it was the Red Menace now it the ‘boat people’ ‘Muslim terrorists.’ ‘the Other.’ Yes the politics of fear are back in vogue, after all what does the Liberal have to offer the electorate in terms of ethical credibility? Nothing. What about ideology? Again bankruptcy. The Neo-Cons failed. Just look at the presidency of George the Second.

But wait we are not alone amidst all the chaos, the voice of reason has emerged. Three wise men from the rural hinterlands have come to our rescue. One a Queenslander ‘the force from the North.’ Is demanding that the government end the independence of the Reserve Bank and that the dollar is overvalued by four times. Excuse me?

Either way these wise men have assumed power beyond their constituent’s dreams to influence national policy and affairs. And so we wait for them to decide. Democracy is being held to ransom because a few fools who are basically Nationals by any other name are enjoying their time in the Sun. But then I could be surprised, stranger things have happened. Although I don’t remember when. At the best the country will be back in the polls in six months or twelve. Either way its like being trapped at present in a rather absurdist drama.

“But what Saturday? And is it Saturday? Is it not rather Friday Or Monday?(Pause) Or Friday?”
“Its not possible”
“Or Thursday?”
“what’ll we do?”

We wait for the voice of sanity and reason to gain the ascendancy, we wait for what else is there to do but wait.

Has the election result confirmed that the people do get the government they deserve?

Has this election result drawn the darkness over this nation?

Has this election result confirmed that the Australian public is just plain stupid?

If you answered yes to any of the above then your in the same boat as me. I fail to comprehend the ritual Seppuku that the ALP has preformed upon its self. As I said earlier come back Kevin we miss you, but then why would or should he bother.

I have to ask is will the public having vented their spleen on the ALP in NSW now reelect that odious Labor Government. Better still will those insipid clowns in Sussex Street commit Seppuku themselves after their disastrous Coup d’teat which has thrown the country in to chaos. I mean really my future is in the hands of Bob Katter ‘the force form the North.’ God help us all.

I mean please this is all a bad dream and as soon as I click my heels three times I will wake up and go ‘what the fuck was that all about.’

No still here. Well at least I can look at this from a manically depressed point of view and smile.

‘Mister Kurtz, he dead.’ If only. ‘the horror, the horror, THE HORROR’

Yes more than ever this is a conscience vote, do you want to return to the dark ages personified by the Mad Monk and his gang of Neo Con(artists) Look at how the Liberals have played wedge politics with the boat people. Social divisiveness at its best. The boat people are today’s red menace of the 1950′s or the Communist yellow peril of the 1960′s. Either way its a case of a bankrupt ideology stalking the corridors of Australian social life.

For me as an individual, the issue which all Australian should seriously think on is that under John Howard the Australian house was turned from a home into a line of credit.

The question is who is going to pay for it. Our children? Not at today’s market price.

Owning a home is not a dream, its part of a practical, stabilised existence. If you own your own home you have a sense of security of psychological well being. A sense of place, of belonging. Fixed home ownership is the foundation for building communities. Building communities is a way to build socially stable democracy and ensure the future well being our nation.

But under the previous Liberal administration all that changed. Currently Australian house prices are on average 40% over valued. Well and good for some but what about those who are seeking to enter the market.

The young have been exiled to become renters who are there to be exploited by investors all in the name of profit. Simple but true.

And looming over this is the question of when the housing bubble does burst what will its consequences be to the Australian economy and society.

I was bought up in the Labor tradition of egalitarianism and a fair go for all. Under the Howard Administration all that changed. The dictates of the market became the dominant social currency.

And then of course there was the GFC and the fact Rudd Labor government kept Australia out of recession. Do not forget that forget that Kevin Rudd destroyed John Howard, only the second Australian PM to lose his seat and the election. That fact is history. The election of Labor in 2007 offered a ray of hope for the future. Let us not reenter the darkness of the past.

I believe that Julia Gillard is still the embodiment of that hope for a better future. There are many issues why one should vote Labor, but as a citizen I appeal to the social conscience of other citizens, “Do not throw the future into the black hole of the past.” Tony Abbott is yesterdays man with yesterday ideas.

Citizens the future is in your hands use your vote wisely.

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