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Bye Bye Howard
Man, I've waited sooooooooooooo long for this day, it feels a bit anticlimacitc. (That I am sitting at home blogging about it rather than at a party should be evidence enough.)
Back when Latham lost the 2004 election - October the 9th, I remember it well... I've been waitin since then.
In fact, further back than then. Back to 1996 when Keating - who is my kind of arsehole - lost to that short man.
I've been a member of the ALP on and off since the early nineties (it's in my gene's, going back at least a couple of generations). But I rejoined this time around because I figured after the last election, here was a party who needed all the help they could get.
As it turned out, they didn't, particularly not in the safest labor seat in the country! But still...
I guess I am relieved, finally, that tonight the member for Bennelong lost his seat and lost his government. Will take a few days to sink in...
Sorry if this entry is not particularly coherent. Will post more tomorrow when I'm less exhausted.
Back when Latham lost the 2004 election - October the 9th, I remember it well... I've been waitin since then.
In fact, further back than then. Back to 1996 when Keating - who is my kind of arsehole - lost to that short man.
I've been a member of the ALP on and off since the early nineties (it's in my gene's, going back at least a couple of generations). But I rejoined this time around because I figured after the last election, here was a party who needed all the help they could get.
As it turned out, they didn't, particularly not in the safest labor seat in the country! But still...
I guess I am relieved, finally, that tonight the member for Bennelong lost his seat and lost his government. Will take a few days to sink in...
Sorry if this entry is not particularly coherent. Will post more tomorrow when I'm less exhausted.