Re: I always see these strange stories from Australia
Yes we do and yes we did. A few years ago Conway (Labour/Labor/Democrat) tried to do this - so we threw them out. Now the current lot (Liberal/Tory/Republican) is doing the same thing.
Our saving grace may be that our current house of review (senate/house of lords) contains a group of representatives who hold the balance of power who are the most unpolitical, unpredictable, non-PC group who have ever held power. A few independents with a single-issue focus, several senators from "micro-parties" who got in on preference deals (the big parties are already talking about changing the law to stop that happening again) and a set of rogues from the PUP who bought their seats (one of whom recently appeared on a radio program saying her ideal man would be "rich, well hung and mute").
The next few years promise to be interesting in the Australian parliament.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
