New Management?

Well, it's 12:17am and I sit here, far from sleepiness but close to fatigue. It's been a long day, and with all the tension, stress, excitement, joy... well, really there was no joy... anyway, all the emotions and strange, disturbing feelings that came along have all been overshadowed now by the great sadness and grief that stirs within my bowels loins heart (it takes me a while to get the right word when I'm this upset).

Today, Australia voted the coalition back into power. Back in government for the first time since Kevin Rudd's ALP in 2007 gave Johnny Howard's Lib/Nats a tombstone piledriver worthy of a WWE championship belt. It's been a short (or long, it's all about perspective) 6 years. Only 6 years, you say? In that time, Rudd has been ousted by the under-appreciated and underestimated Julia Gillard. "Knifed", as the papers all said, because when you want to get a point across, you use loaded language - see also "faceless men". He took the leadership back via the same caucus in which he was first "knifed" three years later with an election looming.

The ALP government since 2007 has done many things. The introduction of the Carbon Tax as well as  the NDIS were visionary and a step forward.

All that is now about to change.

On Monday, Australia will wake up to it's new government. "New management" the incoming fundamentalist and misogynistic, budgie smuggler donning new PM has called it.

This is a new blog of mine that will track the movement, every single policy, every quote - see also "gaffe" and every single time Joe Hockey adjusts his pants during question time.

Stay tuned, there's a lot more to come, particularly in the first week.

Watch this space.