Woke this morning with the lines from Jabberwocky in my mind. Specifically:
“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
Says it all, really. (Amusingly, it seems that John Quiggin had a similar reaction.)
I’m pleased but unsure what direction the new government will take next – there’s been too much me-tooism for my liking. Over the campaign (and before that) I found myself wishing they would stop echoing the Libs. I do hope this new government will be more compassionate. And I agree with Kathryn, we need to focus on conservation and sustainability, economic growth alone is not the answer.
To celebrate I even broke my daily limit of one-per-day alcohol consumption and had TWO beers. I think I needed the cold fizziness to wash down the huge amounts of vege chips, sunflower seeds and melon seeds I consumed while watching the tally on Aunty. What was with the continual ruckus from that stupid audience, though? I kept expecting Kerry O’Brien to stand up, turn around, and yell “SHUT UP!!!” I wish someone did!
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At the start of the tally, Kerry O’Brien seemed to be blaming the Chaser for all the noise. It seemed to me that every time he said “John Howard” the crowd started cheering, like the trigger in a drinking game – the trigger may have been an image of Maxine McKew that they kept flashing up.
Later on , he apologised for the noise and said it was caused by two things – i) the natural excitement of the crowd ii)”a network that doesn’t have confidence in seious commentary to draw an audience and has to resort to clown tricks”. Some twitterfriends interpreted this as a dig at Channel 7, but I think he was dissing the ABC for not getting the crowd out of the studio.
Hi COn
In Dubai I went off to vote on Friday morning.
Then on Saturday at a late lunch in Dubai, another Aussie there started receiving SMS messages from friends with the election results. She was doing happy dances, too!
All of us were teachers or working in education.
She commented – “Now I can go back to Australia!”