So I went on holidays, and thought better of updating this electronic gurgle- I lounged, I restored my horribly pallid complexion to something less cadaver-esque, I read two 'important' books of the moment (Easton Ellis' 'Imperial Bedrooms' left me a bit, you know? Like Less than Zero, that perfect affectedly unaffected first-person style was actually beginners luck, and the longer his career continues the more he is removed, through time and through trying, from what made him essential. Not that it's a bad book... It's more that there is a better book in there, somewhere. Whereas Franzen's 'Freedom' is just as good as the mounting pile of breathless adoration suggests, until the bird watching and eco-intrigue stuff starts, and I started to think that the grace and effortless 'summing-up' that had sent the previous several hundred pages past this reader so enjoyably got caught up in the now, in the 'I-am-saying-important-things-about-now'-ness of these latter sections that dragged a little. But it comes home strong and you should read it. On holidays. Away from Canberra.)
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In Canberra, the musketeers talked, and talked some more, and generally annoyed the nation. But luckily (for them), they weren't the story, for Abbott's 'black hole/misunderstanding' hogged a lot of column inches. And with that, the papers pretty well called it. The Australian even, bouncing back from a new low of calling the Greens/Labor alliance something like the worst thing to happen to humankind since plague, lent toward the incumbent after Abbott, Hockey and Robb's late week shocker. The Lib's had a 'bad week.' But, as many pointed out, this is not the campaign, and a bad week in general play means little here. They still need only to appeal to an audience of three.
Those editorials in all the major dailies have handed it to Labor, but the longer this has gone on, the more we should distrust anything we've read. Including these words here. All of them. The time the three are taking might indeed be due to a thorough process set in train last week. It might be due to a sense of covering all angles, giving the situation appropriate weight. Or it might be thanks to the situation looking like one where it would be now very difficult to back the Coalition due to the numbers and thanks to the vast, actually quite extraordinary misplacing of a lazy 7-to-11 billion shmackers, but want to, and hence are feeding the Tories enough rope. Maybe. We'll know tomorrow apparently, It will all be over. And then something else, probably something even more dramatic, will be begin.
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