Wednesday, April 23, 2008

By the Zillion

Australia's still-new Prime Minister should have plenty of good ideas for the future after last weekend's "gabfest" for 2000 carefully selected citizens.
The came from all over the nation, from farms, schools, industry, unions and from academia. Whatever possibility for doing the nation good must have been discussed, and the Government has promised to report its intentions by the end of the year on the 200 or so "major ideas" left after serious culling of the original list of thousands.
There's no doubt that all the delegates (with the possible exception of the Leader of the Opposition) found their all-expenses-paid weekend stimulation, and that they worked and talked hard for the potential good of the nation. Certainly, there were plenty of promising proposals, and the great majority of them are likely to fit neatly into "Kevin 07's" party policies.
Just two doubts remain.
Were delegates chosen, in part, because of their policy "suitability?" and . .
Our new PM, in his campaigning, led us to believe he already had plenty of plans in mind.
Well, the so-called 100 day honeymoon is well and truly over, the Wold travel extravaganza is over, for the time. I await the parliamentary developments with interest.

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