Election fever

The good folk of voting age back home probably couldn't agree less but I'm coming rapidly round to the idea that elections should be held more often back home. Once a quarter perhaps? Six weeks for a campaign, six weeks of governance. On off, on off.

The antics that are standard issue electioneering are at least ensuring better some coverage of the great southern land.

For a start someone has decided that not enough people outside Australia are aware that they can watch footage via YouTube of the would-be Prime Minister (Kev) picking his ear and eating the scrapings. This is the sort of publicity money simply can't buy. Clearly the post-modern media mogul is taking Kev very seriously. So the whole story's been taken out and given another run around the block.

The fact that there's an 'Australian Notebook' column in today's paper is merely bandwagon jumping by Old Media from a right of centre stance. Stephen Pollard lays out a complicated case for not underestimating Little John when it would have been simpler to point out that since he hasn't been shot by a silver bullet or had a stake driven through his heart he obviously has a chance in next month's federal election.