By Darryl Mason
So here we go. Federal Election 2010 is on. Even though we don't actually vote for the prime minister of Australia, politicians to the media are quite happy to play along and make it a battle of personalities, less so than policies, or even competence.
But it's not even really about coup prime minister Julia Gillard Vs the Mining Industry/Coalition's Tony Abbott. It's about Gillard & Abbott doing everything they can to stop The Greens from gaining the balance of power in the Australian senate, and completely undermining the two party system that has served Australia's richest people so faithfully for so many decades. It's fortunate then that the Labor Party and the Liberals/Nationals coalition can rely on the full support of the Australian Murdoch media doing everything they can to scare people away from voting for The Greens.
As coup prime minister Julia Gillard has made clear, by mentioning the phrase more than 20 times in a 10 minute speech, the Labor Party are for Moving Forward, or Moving Forward Together or Moving Australia Forward :
It's a corny phrase already making people grind their teeth, less than 24 hours after the election date of August 21 was announced.
The Liberal Party meanwhile have settled on 'Stand Up' :
'Stand Up' is, of course, the name of an excellent song by The Angels :
Note these key lyrics :
Promises are easy
You swallow every word
Just be sure of who you serve
And here's the first official Federal Election 2010 ads from the leaders of the Labor and Liberal parties.
Here's Greens' leader Bob Brown outlining his party's policies for the coming election.
I'll go easy on the Federal Election 2010 coverage here, because you're going to be inundated with it everywhere you turn, and I'll be a bit busy elsewhere finishing off my first movie 'Fuck The War', starring Dave Gleeson, for an October release.
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