My vote for Premier goes to ... cricketer D. Warner
ANOTHER Queensland election has slipped by with hardly a sign of excitement for most people. Whatever else might have influenced you at last Saturday’s vote, nothing in what follows can have any influence. I wanted it to be that way as I sat down last Sunday to the weekly task of scribbling a few words.
Has the sun shone on Shine or was Watts the winner? We now know the outcome and time will tell whether we have made a wise choice.
I’m staying scarily neutral which is more than I can claim about Toowoomba South and David Janetzki. Despite his foreign name and strange politics I reckon he is a top pollie and very vote-worthy. He, of course, has much greater control over his own political orientation than his name. Anna Paletc is vastly more foreign-sounding than David as well as being blessed with more Zeds than most Socialists could ever hope to have when applying for the dole.
At the time of writing, at least, she seems like a shoe-in to be returned to government in her own right. This leaves Toowoomba looking like a stronghold for the LNP in the southeast of our state. It will be interesting to see how David J and Trevor W will continue to ply their trades as senior opposition leaders.
My attempts to write something coherent are being deflected by my wife’s entirely reasonable insistence on watching our Aussies win the First Test at the Gabba. It is 9-195 for the Poms in their second innings and it’s far from obvious who is going to come out on top. Regular updates come through the wall of my little office just as I am trying to concentrate on politicians with foreign names and new opportunities to lead our state.
Hang on a moment; there’s an update piercing the plaster! They are all out for 195! I don’t think that will prove to be a big problem for the Aussies...
I think I am safe in assuming that Anna stays ‘Ere and will be Premier! I think she is the fourth ALP Qld Premier since my family and I arrived in Australia and Queensland in 1971. That was three years into the Premiership of the unfathomable Joh Bjelke P. I am forever grateful that, as new migrants, we had far more important things to get our heads round than a rampant Jo!
Those were the days! None of your sissy Socialists with fancy ideas about same sex marriage and all that kind of stuff! Blokes wore the trousers and women put out the garbage bins when their husbands told them to; no mucking about!
Please don’t take all of this seriously. I’m something of a sissy Socialist myself despite thinking that David Janetzki is OK if only he would get himself a name that I could spell correctly the first time I try.
If, by some miracle of electoral counting magic, Tim Nicholls and his mates did get up, then I apologise unreservedly. I will never again (well hardly ever) speak ill of Pauline Hanson or say a word of horror about what she says or does.
I shall be forgiving of Tim Nicholls no matter what stupid misjudgements he might make. I shall, eventually, learn to live with whichever party wins and I shall assume that we shall beat the living daylights out of the Poms in the current Test series.
Of course, it’s far from obvious that we will after watching the First Test. But I think we will get there thanks to people like David Warner and a, frankly, pretty ordinary visiting team. How I wish David Warner was standing for Premier. He’d get my vote no matter how little he knows about politics.