tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post8165576782163642369..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Election jittersAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-20306787838745970372007-11-25T23:50:00.000+11:002007-11-25T23:50:00.000+11:00Happy new Australia, Alison (and everyone else). ...Happy new Australia, Alison (and everyone else). We wake up to a new country, one with a bit more hope.Paul Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10965628567103267009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-50355029478833572602007-11-25T23:49:00.000+11:002007-11-25T23:49:00.000+11:00I am not expecting miracles with Rudd, but am imme...I am not expecting miracles with Rudd, but am immensely relieved to know that Howard is finally gone. The thought of another 3 years was just too depressing. <BR/><BR/>After I cast my vote, I told the Greens and ALP volunteers that I hoped for Labor in the lower house, Greens with the balance of power in the upper house and one of them said a Libs loss in Bennelong would be nice. And it all Paul Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10965628567103267009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-12042160334431453162007-11-25T15:50:00.000+11:002007-11-25T15:50:00.000+11:00Well, it ended up being the landslide none of us q...Well, it ended up being the landslide none of us quite dared believe in. I feel the most intense relief. To think my daughter - now just finished school - was seven years old when Howard was voted in!<BR/><BR/>I am not so sanguine about Rudd, but he has the virtue of not being Howard. And I think Gillard will make an excellent deputy PM. But we'll have to wait and see what difference it makes - Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-6129469776184094612007-11-25T00:02:00.000+11:002007-11-25T00:02:00.000+11:00Heigh Ho the Witch is Dead!Heigh Ho the Witch is Dead!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-62697139207345731382007-11-24T23:59:00.000+11:002007-11-24T23:59:00.000+11:00For my next trick, I will not only swallow my prid...For my next trick, I will not only swallow my pride, but eat my hat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-36276369299934071872007-11-24T11:08:00.000+11:002007-11-24T11:08:00.000+11:00I woke up this morning with a terrible feeling tha...I woke up this morning with a terrible feeling that this would be my generation's <EM>Don's Party</EM> election. It might not be time after all. Nothing is looking scarier today than the 16-seat vertical cliff-face that Labor has to scale...<BR/><BR/>It's going to be terribly close or a landslide; there can be no in-between.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com