The murraya (Murraya paniculata) is starting to perfume the road.
It's interesting how Howard's fear campaign against unionists has taken ground, in my head. Howard's government, an incredibly ideologically led government, did everything to destroy the unions: even going so far as to destroy the basis of university student welfare ('student unions'), because of the name, and presumably because they were the basis for students to try their prentice hands in politics (both right and left). It certainly wasn't because of what they did.
Anyway, I hate the corrupt misuse of the methods of preselection in the Labor Party. The NSW branch always finds some way to subvert the rules and preselect the favourite sons of the right for safe seats. So I do hope that Bill Shorten has gone into Parliament from ambition and not, as seems to be the case for Jenny George, for a nice retirement package. Bob Debus did well in our state parliament and government so he should be one of the many new able people.
One of the nice things about being able to form a government is that there is so much new blood, hopefully much of it good, which is available to make a contribution.
My hope is that Rudd can manage to usher in a new era of state/commonwealth cooperation, without managing to let inflation run away. (With the billions of slush funds available to Howard in his policy of contempt, starvation and hatred of the state governments, there should be some possibility of this being so. .. Provided Rudd does not seek to emulate Howard's policy of diverting taxpayers' money to party political advertising.)
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