My friends from outside Australia can relax soon – just two more sleeps before the election and then it is over. I will write, as soon as the result is clear (which may not be on Saturday night, this may well be the closest election, as I predicted first, see below, since 1961, when Menzies won by just one seat and that one decided by a handful of votes. He wrote to the successful Liberal candidate, James Killen, a telegram which just said “You are magnificent”. I wonder if Julia Gillard will be writing an email to, say, Mike Kelly, to tell him he was magnificent for saving her government) something about the significance. But I hold out no great hopes – in American terms this election is the rough equivalent of Barack Obama versus Sarah Palin, but with the sexes reversed. I feel about it all, as I do about a trip to the dentist – don’t tell me what is going to happen, don’t tell me what is happening, just tell me when it’s over.
Anyway, nearly over, and then we can return to non-parochial issues. I have just written something on refugees, and I received a nice one from constant reader Bob Hawkins from Tasmania which I hereby pass on. If any of my loyal readers have written posts they think other loyal readers might like, please let me know and I will highlight them here. Will make a change from always reading my prose.
Oh and another bit of news – my chapter in the Australian Book of Atheism is to appear, Hooray. The book is due out in December.
And speaking of my prose, I am still adding to my biographical material under the “Dream” tab at the top of this window. There is now an index of chapters at the start so you can keep track of what you have seen, but I also keep adding new photos to older ones, so have a bit of a trawl from time to time. I now have in place all the fundamental family building blocks of the story, and it only (!) remains to add the half a dozen or so major individual stories to make it complete. Oh and take the story to the start of 1967, which is where I will stop.
