Massive puffer jacketing in Sydney this morning. Reminiscent of late Malcolmism when this was the ABC’s key demo, the Kelly O’Dwyer intifada.
That was all two years ago .... that funereal ABC special on election night in May 2019 .... the sight of Simon Birmingham - who had singlehandedly almost destroyed the Coalition in greater Sydney with Catholic schools parents - trying to say he played any part in the victory
Malcolm is entitled to some bitterness - and to a puffer jacket - but he toppled Nelson & Abbott & knew the game's rules. Right now Malcolm is the de facto opposition leader as Albanese clearly does not want the job & operates at Dave Sharma-esque low energy levels
Australian politics should improve for the slow end of the long Boomer deathgrip. Rudd & Malcolm are essentially our Boomer bookends with massive entitlement, petulance, immaturity, and, above all, a desperate need for attention. We should tolerate but mostly ignore them.
The upshot of Australian politics - amid the puffer jacketing and the Canberra brokenness - is that Australia basically runs itself. There are worse things than a national capital and its political class being a joke. And that is them really mattering any more than necessary.
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