Gone!
I have been impatiently waiting since 11 March, 1996 for a day like yesterday.
…as have others.
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November 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Victory is sweet. 🙂
November 25th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Yes, it’s brilliant!
November 25th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Labor have yet to claim victory in Bennelong… but the numbers ever-so-slightly favor Maxine.
November 25th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Yay! The beast is dead! All my politically aware life, I’ve lived under that conservative shit! No more! No more!
November 25th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Dave, don’t think that you’ve fully escaped conservativism with Rudd. He’s more than a bit churchy and very right-wing on a number of issues including drug policy. It’ll be somewhat better, but you won’t be living in any sort of progressive paradise.
November 26th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
That Maxine banner warms my heart. 🙂
And as far as Rudd is concerned, I’ll take “somewhat better” to start with– just so long as he does the groundwork so that some true reform can take place when the glorious Julia Gillard takes over his mantle.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:22 am
I got so excited Beppie that I completely forget my errand, turned around, drove back home and got the camera.
Thank you to the Faulconbridge sheet hanger who honored a momentous event in Australian political history so simply and elegantly.
Go the Labor grrrrls
November 29th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Especially sweet for the Mountains to be rid of that wet blanket, the completely useless . . . what’s his name . . Bartlett–Kerry. Oh joyous moment.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Not so joyous when you consider KBartlett was replaced by Bob Debus, who as NSW A/G brought you drug sniffer dogs in pubs, restaurants and public transport in Sydney. Yep, those are searches, no matter that the High Court says they’re not- without warrant or reasonable suspicion of criminal activity… unless walking on a sidewalk or having a coffee al fresco in Kings Cross constitutes reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
The federal and state Libs have imploded, but the conservativism vacuum is being handily filled by state Labor, certainly in NSW & QLD.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:58 am
How glorious was it? Karma.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Maxine has now claimed victory in Bennelong…
December 1st, 2007 at 8:21 pm
We can say “Thanks Maxine” for evermore.
HoWARd begone!
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Now is a sweet time Suki.
As of today, we will actually hear, “PM Rudd”, in the medja. Methinks, just about everything was thrown at him from almost everywhere and he bloody well managed to get rid of the little dictator. I thought Howard would declare martial law if he thought he would lose.
Kev must have had guidance from a sage.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:49 am
I guess it’s now OK to tell you that KRudd sought frequent counsel from Sage Suki during the campaign, but didn’t quite know what to do with her advice to “squash HoWARd like a bug on a bumper.”
December 9th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Suki:
Apologies for not being able to join the celebration earlier [ongoing computer and software malfunctions].
I did honestly think that Howard and his mob would pull some sort of a vague “terrrerist” stunt to impede the holding of the election itself. They were desperate and ruthless enough to have tried something outrageous like that. It’s not often I celebrate being so wrong but this time it was a pleasure to do so.
IMHO, Rudd is likely to be a very tough Prime Minister but a competent one …. and not one who is at the beck-and-call of a failed foreign ruler.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Now you can jump up and down and yell a bit. 🙂
December 13th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Graham,
I too was anxious that the former PM would use whatever he could to terrify the voters, but we did it. We moved out a toxic PM and Stanley Melbourne Bruce was given a historical ‘mate.’
weez said,
“Now you can jump up and down and yell a bit.”
That should read,
“Now you can jump higher and yell louder!”
December 19th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Suki:
We probably have a very tough, possibly quite ruthless, Prime Minister now but at least one likely to be reasonably competent. How well he and his Cabinet handle the SubPrime Depression, massive social degradation and a couple of damned nasty military threats remains to be seen. My own gut feeling is that even if they fail then it won’t be for the lack of trying …. nor for following one ratbag ideology after another.
I’m glad Howard and his eleven years of neglect, bullying, lost opportunities, waste, humiliation and stagnation are finally over.
January 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am
yes we have been whine-free for 6 weeks.
and suki-free too.
God I hope you’re not supervising his exit.
come back!
January 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Comrades Suki and weez, t’was the sweetest night on earth.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:37 am
I think we’ve all breathed something of a sigh of relief that HoWARd is now very old news, but I am waiting to see if the Labor govt is actually going to make the changes they sold the voters during the campaign. I suspect Suki is playing the same waiting game… but I also suspect that she likes her gardens more than her blog for now. 😉
January 7th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Weez:
Don’t raise your hopes …. no great leaps in progress could ever come for a “two-party-preferred-basis” vaudeville show that pretended to be an election.
Suki:
Happy gardening …. or whatever you are up to these days. 🙂
January 8th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Thanks Graham and Ann,
I seem to have run out of words by the time HoWARd called the election. When I realised he was gone I noticed I was too.
My garden awaits…
Suki.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Suki:
Hello 🙂
February 6th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Graham, she’s still out in the garden and may well be so for some time.
Remarkably, so am I.
Suki’s domain is the plants that are nice to look at…
I deal with the plants that are nice to eat. 🙂
Men WILL garden if there’s food involved. 🙂