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meteordustPosted 24 June 2010:
What the hell just happened
I was not expecting to find out this morning that we suddenly have a new Prime Minister. So Rudd hasn't been doing so great in the polls, but things were not that dire. Opposition leaders change all the time, but it's a big deal for a Prime Minister in office to step down.
I've had a lot of respect for Gillard and I'm keen to see what she'll do now, but I agree that we have wasted a perfectly good PM.
Damn. Three years. It went by fast.
If a week is a long time in politics, ten years feels like another lifetime.
I don't know if I have the energy or the heart to go back and review the past decade of politics. It's a lot. Most of us were there. Most of us remember.
There was a span of years when I was a lot more active, a lot more galvanised, than I have been in recent years. Going to protests, handing out how-to-vote cards, talking to my local MPs. You get tired sometimes - mostly tired of people choosing the path of fear or hatred or greed. And you wonder sometimes - how do you turn this ship around, when it feels like all you've got is a paddle?
The thing I have to remember is, it still matters. Things go on happening, whether or not you show up. So show up, and say something, and find those other angry passionate people with their own paddles, and maybe together we can steer this thing in a better direction.
What the hell just happened
I was not expecting to find out this morning that we suddenly have a new Prime Minister. So Rudd hasn't been doing so great in the polls, but things were not that dire. Opposition leaders change all the time, but it's a big deal for a Prime Minister in office to step down.
I've had a lot of respect for Gillard and I'm keen to see what she'll do now, but I agree that we have wasted a perfectly good PM.
Damn. Three years. It went by fast.
If a week is a long time in politics, ten years feels like another lifetime.
I don't know if I have the energy or the heart to go back and review the past decade of politics. It's a lot. Most of us were there. Most of us remember.
There was a span of years when I was a lot more active, a lot more galvanised, than I have been in recent years. Going to protests, handing out how-to-vote cards, talking to my local MPs. You get tired sometimes - mostly tired of people choosing the path of fear or hatred or greed. And you wonder sometimes - how do you turn this ship around, when it feels like all you've got is a paddle?
The thing I have to remember is, it still matters. Things go on happening, whether or not you show up. So show up, and say something, and find those other angry passionate people with their own paddles, and maybe together we can steer this thing in a better direction.
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