I try to avoid politics on this blog. A death threat during Labor’s decimation in Queensland saw to that. That said this is my comment posted on tumblr apropos the budget and the Labor government:

From what i have read (thanks mainly to twitter) the budget has nothing in it for me and has the look of the inevitable about it of a government on the way out. Sad that the last Labor budget for at least 9 years will lead to so little in the grand scheme of things. Am also sad that this government will not get the kudos it deserves: one of the few countries not in recession during and post GFC with solid employment numbers and a AAA credit rating throughout (something Hawke / Keating or Howard / Costello did not do) is apparently not enough in the partisan world in which we live. I get Newman and Abbott for a decade: what did I (and we as a state and a nation) do to deserve that?!?

I have been a Labor voter my whole adult life. That will probably change at this election. Not that my vote will matter given the whitewash that is coming.