Australia’s alternative Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has come under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks as a bemused electorate wonders what we have to do to get leaders we actually admire.
We don’t particularly like Prime Minister Julia Gillard and we think her administration is rather lacking in capabilities and competence. But when we run our eye over the alternative team we suffer an involuntary shudder as well. And, the Greens? Well, you’re basically either in love with them or think they’re mad, bad and dangerous.
All of them reckon they’re great but no matter how hard we look, we cannot see much in the way of proof. Certainly it’s a real a difficulty for those in opposition, but this lot have been under the microscope for a couple of years now and we are still trying to find a silver lining.
Things have become so deflating that people are starting to ask for policy debate. Seriously, how bad can politics get when Aussies are so disenchanted with the theatre of leadership that discussing policy seems like a more entertaining alternative?
And, much of this swings on Tony Abbott. When the nation was presented with a hung parliament at the last election, the Opposition Leader got into full swing. He raised merry hell the length and the breadth of the country, protesting that Labor had failed to win enough votes to secure legitimacy and that we needed him to save us.
