dissolving the house of representatives 5.29pm, page-3

should be a 42 gun salute - fireworks on Harbor Bridge - free champagne in every restaurant - "Joy to the World" free Beethoven in the Opera House concert hall.

SO MUCH pomp and ceremony -

for TWO unelecteds - who got together formally yesterday, (She, HIS choice for THAT job, at Yarralumla, an unelected official) and HE, also an unelected official. Decided it is at last OK - to formally tell us, the voters, when an election will be.

Should we grovel - be thankful, caps demurely in hand? For this extraordinary "honor?". A "Let them eat cake" gesture - each of these persons being paid an absolute fortune. THEY don't suffer. As many of us do.

Champagne tonight. and the next night, And the next.

But mainly sheer delight. Getting rid of the bunkum and lies.