9 & 10, Again Again!

I have so much to tell you. Really. Soon this blog will launch again, relaunch 8.0, with all the stuff I want to write about. A series of Canberra restaurant reviews, aimed at inviting local chefs to hunt me down (they're not very complimentary. And yet, factually correct). A series called 'How to make -insert film title, say, Inception, or the Ghost Writer- Better', where I will guide the reader through a collection of simple steps to improve filmic fare. Oh yes. Not to mention a bunch of record reviews and breathless missives on football. Exciting stuff I know. But today, it's about two party business. 

Gillard took the largest breath of relief around midday today, when the two party count again tilted her way. Before that, thanks to some AEC gymnastics, the Coalition snuck ahead. Fact is, they won't have final figures for some time, and they probably won't be terribly different to what they were before the AEC re-jigged the methods (Labor just pulling ahead). It's a long story as to why, and there are better people than me to explain the whole bit, but the point is that Gillard dodged an awkward one at lunch. 

Via ABC.

Her address was fine- it was measured and contained words and her ninja hands didn't go too crazy, but the point, the motivation, was missing. It was a speech for an audience of four, masquerading as an address for all of us. As Annabel Crabb noted, she only really shone when she got miffed. Can we have her, after all this is done, the one with some heart and wit? Can the independents put that on the wish list?

In the meantime, Abbott told his cabinet, in a horribly stage managed pow-wow, that they were a Government in waiting. Hubris, my little cycling amigo, careful with the hubris.