The Australian Federal election is coming up on November 24th 2007, with what looks like a landslide victory for the opposition, and this may be a good thing.

Kevin Rudd: The Incumbent

I thought I’d preface this post by saying I don’t really give a hoot_{(aus: horrendous expletive)} about Australian politics, even less so since re-materialising aross the other side of the world all but half a year ago. I’m a person who, like most Australians my age (from what I’ve seen) has no real political agenda, and as such am perfectly happy to follow in my parents footsteps, because thats what mindless drones do. I should also make note of the fact that because I don’t have my own political views (thus my new title, the Political Aphathist), the one sided view and pros and cons for that view expressed in this post will either make no sense, be next to intelligible, or be down right bigoted and/or selfish. So if your a communist, or easily upset by fanatical ramblings, stop reading this post, relax and prepare yourself for Guiness Thursday.

You see, though it breaks my heart to see them win *sniff*, it must be the ALP’s turn for a quarter of a dozen years (being 3) in the spot light. And I can see a couple of reasons for this, and here comes the selfish part. Again, excuse my complete lack of understanding here, but in the period after the float of the Australian Dollar in 1983, it experienced a slump by more than 30 %. This trend continued throughout Bob Hawk and Paul Keatings rule _{(proof needed),} and apparently things increased steadily after the Liberal party came to power in 1996/7.

This incredibly fool-proof and obvious trend leads me to believe that while the dollar is being once again driven into the ground over the next few years, I’ll be slowly building a stock pile of British pounds (I’ll be conservative and say £2936.33), and then I’ll return home, and purchase Dalkeith. And while I’m there I’ll make use of this lovely new Broadband infrastructure, FTTN (Fibre to the Node), we’ve been promised.

 Bob Hawke: The one true Aussie

I can only hope we have a new Australian legend as a prime minister like Bob Hawke in the 1980’s:“His academic achievements were possibly outweighed by the notoriety he achieved as the holder of a world record for the fastest consumption of beer: a yard glass (approximately 3 imperial pints or 1.7 litres) in eleven seconds” [1]

See, nothing fanatical to read here.

P.S: Incumbent had nothing at all do with what I thought it did.  This has proved to be a learning experience for all

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