So, the weirdest of elections just got nasty. Not only did the Queensland Labor Party lose the house (which was expected) they lost the furniture (which was always possible) and their clothes as well. In an 89 seat house they look like they'll have a maximum of 9 members. One of these, former Premier Anna Bligh, has already announced her resignation from Parliament. Far from losing in Ashgrove and leaving the rabble to govern themselves, President-elect Newman won easily with nearly twice the swing he needed and now gets to lead the biggest rabble in the history of the Queensland Parliament. Labor's deperate last minute plea to voters to provide a decent opposition and their reported tactic of pretending to be Greens and handing out how-to-vote cards with themselves as second preference were to no avail. Of course we've known for a long time that the Labor Government was on its last legs, but this is unprecedented. I'd like to be able to say something witty a
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson