Today, Australians go to the polls and vote for the next Prime Minister of Australia.
It's actually quite exciting and patriotic to be able to do this....although I'm not really impressed by either candidate as it stands. Does this make me less patriotic I wonder?
If you are interested in our Federal Election and who the candidates are, click here for some info.
Personally, I think we should just vote for this guy.
I don't particularly like politics, but damn we have some funny politicians in Australia. Take Julie Bishop, our Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Apparently she was heckled during an interview and this resulted in the following death stare:-
Then some wag decided to turn it into Julie Bishop Using The Force:-
God I think this is funny, I can't even look at her without giggling now!
So to our Prime Minister. Kevin Rudd. Probably the most unlikeable one we have had. He is rude to flight attendants, looks down his nose at the most unfortunate, and can't even lower himself to the common man. I really don't like him. I know that sounds unpatriotic but I just do not respect him.
Our previous Prime Minister John Howard was better. He was more approachable, as I found out one day whilst shopping at the mall. As I walked on through, there seemed to be alot of fuss with a crowd of people gathering around. I made my way to the crowd and realised there were alot of very important looking burly security people hanging around this one guy.
And it turned out to be Prime Minister John Howard. He was on a meet and greet with the people so I made my way over, realising this was my one and only chance of meeting him. I pushed my way to the front of the crowd and when he looked over, I put my hand out and said in a (too) excited voice " Hi, I'm Farmers Wife!". (insert name here).
He shook my hand and said hello and moved on. And that was that. He was shorter than I thought but really friendly. So that was my 5 seconds with the Prime Minister of Australia.
I really like Barack Obama and would love to know your thoughts, since alot of my readers are Americian. Is he popular over there, do people like him, can he "connect" with the public....
And I really like Michelle (cool name) Obama, she seems really down to earth and easygoing. For a first lady. And she has got great style.
On a more serious note, we are possibly expecting a visit from Cyclone Ului on the weekend. Come on, I'm just too busy for a cyclone right now. We have dance festival rehearsal on Saturday, so I better not get blown off my hill because the ballet takes preference.
It's already really windy here, but hopefully it will blow on through like the one we had this time last year, and I won't have to visit the tinned food isle as I did back then.
