
If you’re anything like me, you’re probably feeling a tad disillusioned with Australian politics at the moment. I mean, you really want to give a shit. You want to be informed. You want to exercise your voting right as a conscionable tax-paying Australian citizen – and you want to do it responsibly.
But when you’re being asked to choose between an out-of-touch millionaire who declares that parents should “shell out” to help their children buy into an impossible housing market, and a man who was recently likened to “a pile of wet cardboard boxes held together with tangled sticky tape,” you’d be excused for pouring yourself a tall glass of wine at 4pm and Googling cheap flights to Canada.
