The campaigns are drawing to a close, it’s less than two hours until closing time for the polling booths and its likely that trends will be set early in the vote-counting. All the while, we look back at the campaigning, even though it was a relatively short campaign, we felt inundated; Swamped under the weight of propaganda both from the political parties, and from the lobby groups. It’s phenomonal the reaction this Federal Election is having on ordinary people. A truly uninspiring campaign with truly breathtaking criticality.
The voting day. Image courtesy news.com.au
But the question begs itself. What are we voting for? What are we trying to achieve with this election. Let us not forget how we ended up here in the first place. It all started with the falling approval ratings of the Labor Party, and specifically it’s Leader, Kevin Rudd. The Liberal party leadership, heavily influenced by it’s deputy leader, decided to dump Kevin as the leader of the country, and install Julia Gillard as the new leader of the Labor party, and thus caretaker Prime Minister.
While this appears to be constitutionally sound, the body politic saw this installation as a violation of their democratic voting ability, citing that they in fact did not elect Julia as the Prime Minister. Fortunately the Labor party were wise enough to know that this would be hugely controversial and announced shortly after, that an election would be held on the 21st August 2010.
I am truly frightened what the outcomes of this election are going to be. I look at Labor’s frivolous spending plans and I am genuinely concerned that if they do get re-elected, that Australia will end up in so much debt, that we will not be able to compete on an international level. Our current account deficit sits $17.459[1] billion dollars and looks to be growing by over $150 million/day. This figure is frightening. I just read some exit-poll figures which show me that the Carbon Trading problems are not what people care about, nor the National Broadband Network. The real issue is leadership.
I hope we get the Coalition back in. We really need them, now more than ever.
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