John Howard loses the Bennelong seat; Kevin Rudd welcomed as Australia's new Prime Minister.
I was sitting in a lounge room next to a journalist wearing a Kevin07 shirt when the news hit home. We waited while Johnny said his last rights and finally left the stage, as much a deceptive c'nt as an accomplished man. Kevin Rudd floated on to accept his title, moving forward with the promise to be an honest, fair man holding true to the long running tradition of Australian Labour party leaders. Australia is now out of the economic recession, there is no need for the economic growth promoted by the Liberal party. We sit here with an opportunity to give something back to the lower classes that suffered to make the Australian economy boom on a larger scale.
Chinese food in hand, we cheered, we clapped, and we whooped as a party that we could finally be proud of promised to take us through our definitive early twenties. The champaign glasses came out, as the verdict became apparent: we are the generation of change, there will be no more backward thinking, no more prejudice and no more lies.
Finally, out of all of this, one of the things that I am most proud of from somewhere a little left field: I'm proud to have helped bring about our new Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Guillard, who will be the first woman to perform a role, however brief and far between in need, as an acting Prime Minister of Australia. If nothing else, I'm overwhelmed to have lived to see the day when a woman runs our country.
I was sitting in a lounge room next to a journalist wearing a Kevin07 shirt when the news hit home. We waited while Johnny said his last rights and finally left the stage, as much a deceptive c'nt as an accomplished man. Kevin Rudd floated on to accept his title, moving forward with the promise to be an honest, fair man holding true to the long running tradition of Australian Labour party leaders. Australia is now out of the economic recession, there is no need for the economic growth promoted by the Liberal party. We sit here with an opportunity to give something back to the lower classes that suffered to make the Australian economy boom on a larger scale.
Chinese food in hand, we cheered, we clapped, and we whooped as a party that we could finally be proud of promised to take us through our definitive early twenties. The champaign glasses came out, as the verdict became apparent: we are the generation of change, there will be no more backward thinking, no more prejudice and no more lies.
Finally, out of all of this, one of the things that I am most proud of from somewhere a little left field: I'm proud to have helped bring about our new Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Guillard, who will be the first woman to perform a role, however brief and far between in need, as an acting Prime Minister of Australia. If nothing else, I'm overwhelmed to have lived to see the day when a woman runs our country.
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I was all, damnit, I wish I could stay longer! But then I figured you were leaving for Brissy that evening anyway, so yeah, we shall meet again! In January for my birthday!