No I'm no expert on Politics of any sort, but I know enough.

 

I have finally gotten sick of the dealings of a crazed man who thinks he will one day be P.M.

 

Not if I have anything to do with it!

 

In 1996, Australian Politics changed forever when Little Johnny Howard was elected our Prime Minister. It marked the end of an era, and the beginning of a downhill run for Australia socially and economically.

 

You see, Howard was the Liberal Leader and he made it so very clear that pandering to the big businesses is what kept him in power for those ELEVEN miserable years!!

 

He lowered their taxes, and raised the taxes of the 'little people'. He destroyed the health care system (otherwise known as Medicare). He left the top job with a surplus that had no choice but to be spent to boost the floundering economy. Health, education, transport et cetera were flailing in the wind without support.

 

In 2007, Kevin Rudd became our Prime Minister. He's our Labour Leader.

 

He was faced with the "Global Financial Crisis" within his first year in the top job and he gave everyone in the country money from the Government to spend on the economy or how they saw fit. (I personally didn't get this $900 bonus but that's beside the point).

 

By the end of 2008 the current Liberal Opposition Leader, Brendan Nelson quit. Malcolm Turnbull took his job, the outspoken git.

 

Because Mr. Rudd had to deal with the GFC, he was a little behind on bringing forth his election promises. Which is fair enough. However, he now had Mr. Turnbull to deal with in Parliament.

 

Very few bills/legislation has come through since the GFC was "officially dealt with", very few people realise this is because the Liberals have adopted the manner of BLOCKING ALMOST EVERY SINGLE THING RUDD BROUGHT UP in the House of Representatives. Very little has made it to the Senate, and even fewer have been passed.

 

Mr. Turnbull quit the Liberal leadership at the end of 2009, Mr. Tony Abbott took his job, the smug git.

 

Tony Abbott is the most stupid man on the planet. He has no clue. He seriously thinks that if he just argues with Mr. Rudd then people will start to doubt the Government. He has also continued the Liberal notion of blocking everything or misdemeaning everything Labour, and Mr. Rudd, do.

 

In recent interviews with Mr. Abbott, he has indicated he is a Gemini, simply because in one interview he says one thing and the next he says the complete opposite - essentially arguing with himself.

 

He also got lost in the desert with a journo and couldn't figure out how to work a phone to call someone. Is this really who Australia wants as their next Prime Minister? I fracking don't!!

 

Mr. Rudd recently proposed placing a heavy tax on the mining industry - on the very big businesses who have gotten away with lower tax rates (and are therefore now worth BILLIONS) from the previous Liberal government!! Tony Abbott and his fellow Liberals were livid - as if the mining industry somehow couldn't afford it!!

 

Abbott also scoffed at Rudd's decision to give back to healthcare and start reforming our hospitals, increasing nurse training and providing incentives for people to become doctors as the ones we do have retire or quit over insane conditions brought forth by the Howard government!!

 

He scoffed at Rudd's proposal to provide extra/new training for the education system and teachers, which are lacking in various skills needed for such a job.

 

When the budget came out he decided to give his Shadow Minister for the Treasury the job of a rebuttle instead of doing it himself, as he had promised before it was released. Joe Hockey, said Shadow Minister, palmed it off to another shadow minister who had the job of explaining why Abbott and Hockey were so shyte at their own responsibilities!!

 

Then, Abbott had the audacity to make budget "promises" which we had "to trust that he would keep" if he was elected this year - while rebutting the actual budget which the government had committed to paper and had no choice but to go through with. It wasn't a luxurious budget, but it meant we'd be back in surplus before the end of 2013 (which is an election year).

 

But the best thing about Labour? Our Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, is a redhead. :-D

 

 

I swear if Liberals are re elected at the end of this year, the Australian public will have shown how stupid they are and I will be emigrating. I will not be kept at the poverty line so that those with silver pockets can keep lining them with gold.

 

Okay. Rant over.

I must say it doesn't take much for my blood to get boiling.

 

This morning I have been rather ill, I'm supposed to be at uni and my husband walks into the bedroom and starts asking me about breakfast.

After some confusion I realise he didn't make the porridge I wanted. Bad idea.

 

Two of my cats come running into the bedroom, jumping on the bed in a seemingly innocent cat-and-mouse game. They mess up the blankets. Bad idea.

 

I go outside to clean out the water for our ducks and realise the hose has holes in it because my husband left it on the driveway. He ran over the hose, which wouldn't normally be a bad thing except the hose was frozen. It sprung a leak. I get up and get soaked in freezing morning weather because the leaks were pointed at me when I turned the tap on. Bad idea.

 

After cleaning and drying our lounge room curtains, we realise one of our cats has soiled them after they'd been back on the rung for half an hour. Bad idea.

 

I blame it on the red hair, mostly because that's what people expect. I'm also an Aries, and while I'm skeptical about the whole Astrology thing I can honestly say I am a prime Arian. So I blame it on that too.

 

My brother (not a redhead) told me to take anger management courses. I threw a clothes rack at him.

 

I wonder if watching the movie counts.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm having trouble picking classes for next year and it is frustrating the hell outta me.

 

I'm enrolled in a Bachelor of Classical Studies at the Australian National University.

 

I major in Latin and Ancient History.

 

For each semester (of which there are two a year) you complete four classes, so eight in a year.

 

Next year is my final year. I shall have completed my Ancient History major in June. So aside from the classes needed to complete my Latin major, I have three slots free to choose what I want to do.

 

One course is I saw was Tudor-Stuart England, over a 300 year period. It's not really ancient enough for me to really consider it but it is an interesting period of English history. Plus there's no final exam because it's research based.

 

So do I Tudor or do I not Tudor???

 

Considering that I still have 6-7 months before I have to worry about it I'm probably just detracting from the studies I do have.

 

Damn my tired brain for figuring that out. Blissful ignorance was so much better than exhausted conscience.

If there's one thing I cannot stand, it's being called blonde simply because the red in my hair is starting to fade.

 

I recently had my hair done because I felt like something different. It's now short and a darker red (although it wasn't a permanent colouring so it's fading back to its original).

 

At uni one day I was procrastinating homework and trolling the net when I came across M.I.A's new music video in which male gingers are brutally murdered. I have no idea what the relevance between the song and the video was but that's for another blog.

 

Anyway, I made some comment about the video expressing my displeasure when one of my classmates pipes up,

 

"what are you complaining about? You've only been a redhead for a week!"

 

Boy was I mad. For some reason I truly dislike people thinking I'm not a redhead. Maybe I'm just neurotic.

 

My rather testy reply was "actually, I've been a redhead since birth" and asked if she wanted to see my fire crotch as proof.

 

Then I proceeded to offend her blonde stupidity.

 

Neurotic much?