Even in the age of TV ads, YouTube and digital propaganda and even if an incumbent government is returned, there is always a reshuffle of departments and ministers meaning:
Before the massive presses in the major (and I mean *major*) printers in Canberra and state capitals have drawn breath after how-to-vote cards and other pre-election pap and propaganda has left on semi after semi after semi in come the flood of really, really URGENT (meaning printers can charge what they like) orders for semi-load after semi-load after semi-load of NEW departmental and ministerial letterheads, envelopes, note-paper, memo paper, all the paper-work that computers were supposed to eliminate for the paper-devouring appartus of a government that since 1972 has increased the size of the bureaucracy massively and the size the Tax-Pack from four A4 pages (in 1972) to over 300 pages of instructions and forms today AS WELL AS all the printed paperwork associated with a GST that Howard promised we'd never-ever have that (when the builders finish rushing it to completion) will be run from a huge new ATO building in central Canberra that dwarfs its cowering companions.
In my father's day, the Liberal Party stood for SMALL government not a goverment that wants to control every aspect of life in Australia and in places like Iraq and Afghanistan plus in Heaven and Hell if given the chance!
Plus take over many state functions AS WELL AS increase the number of secret and federal police to keep tabs on the deviants and miscreants who distrust the kid-caging regime of Adolf Howard!
Only four more sleeps to Rudd take-off!
I love the smell of power-kerosene from four engines at full throttle.
