Being active

By active in this case I mean politically. Never has there been a better time in Australia to become involved in politics. It is even interesting enough to talk about socially! Now that we have a system which is not so blatantly lighter grey and darker grey (Labor and Liberals) but has green (The Greens), and shades of black and white (the Independents) we can all say hurray!

It may not work so well in practice but at least the debate will come back into the ring. More opinions will be heard and hopefully stuffy pollies will not assume to know (as Howard always kept saying and sadly, I think, occasionally Rudd) 'what the people want'. No assumptions please. We are all individuals, or independents, and as our independent MPs have shown, we can therefore be moved in mysterious ways.

So the Aussie Federal Election left me exhausted and in a heap once it was finally over. The lapse of time when we didn't know the outcome was a slide into emptiness brought on by an unfamiliar involvement in the affairs of the world (Australia). It was a very personal feeling for me, like what I felt when I graduated and there was a bit of a hole in my life. Then we found out the result, and I felt as elated as the day I graduated. Oh may politics always feel this personal!