Good morning, Monday people. The weekend is done and dusted and we’re all suffering through the double-whammy of having to deal with an entire new week of work, as well as the on-going fallout from that whole Federal Election bizzo that’s left us with a bigger cliffhanger than a Stallone movie.
And while no doubt you’ve all had to endure mindless babble from Derek in accounts this morning as he makes his thoughts on the matter abundantly clear (“it’s good/bad/the country’s stuffed/I’m moving to Thailand“), you can probably rest easy knowing that that’s definitely not the worst opinion to be expressed on the matter so far today.
Gerry Harvey, known Australian old person, speaker-of-words, and one-time star of the greatest ad ever aired on Australian TV…
…barely let the steam on the morning coffee settle before throwing his highly esteemed, probably imported hat into the ring.
Speaking on the likely event of another contentious hung parliament and a Prime Ministership race that’s still completely up in the air, Harvey noted that we’re finding ourselves in this situation because Canberra has existed in a state of perpetual instability for a number of years now, noting the political turmoil the nation has endured since John Howard left office in 2007.
“In that period we’ve had five prime ministers and New Zealand’s had one. The whole world now, with what’s happening in England, Europe and America, there’s a great deal of dissatisfaction with mainstream politics and the people are showing their frustration.”
Which is a fairly astute and reasonable observation, credit where its due.
But then, this:
“Neither side can do anything about it because the minute they do they’re hammered. The only cure we’ve got is to have a dictator like in China or something like that. Our democracy at the moment is not working.”
Ahh yes, the good old fashioned Aussie dictator.
One who rules over the land with an iron fist mostly because they’re gripping a tinnie in it.
One whose new national motto, like the foot placement on a good cover drive, is “always forward.”
One who’ll partake in glorious, mandatorily attended parades, waving to the baying masses from the back of a bulletproof ute.
Because when democracy is clearly this stuffed, the correct solution is obviously dictatorial communism. Just like they have in China.
There’s obviously a few people that might think they’d be good at a similar job in Australia, but we all know who the one lone acceptable candidate is.
Get behind!
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