Australian Politics - A Year in Review 2012
It’s hard to think of a more bitter and divisive year in Australian politics and the scary thing is that it wasn’t even an election, that will be for 2013.
It’s hard to think of a more bitter and divisive year in Australian politics and the scary thing is that it wasn’t even an election, that will be for 2013.
Here in Australia where the sun shines brightly, the wind blows fresh and strong across our sweeping plains, where the waves crash into our never-ending shoreline and where a bunch of truckies spurred on by a radio shock jock gathered in our nations capital to try and depose the minority federal government.
Why? You might ask, it would seem that the truckies and shock jocks didn’t like the result of the last election much and kind of don’t like they way our political system is governed, as enshrined in the constitution. The organizers of the event, who refer to themselves as the “Convoy of No Confidence” in the days preceding the protest predicted that thousands would join the protest on the lawns of parliament house Canberra.