Well, no place for this classic song in this election campaign - it's all about quick fixes and empty promises.
There's no sign of that yellow ribbon anywhere...
Three years since the last election but Julia denied us the opportunity to prove this "emotional tie" to Kevin Rudd that every man and his dog in politics (except in Labor's ranks) seems to think the Queensland electorate has.
Who exactly misses Kevin in twenty-10? Tony Abbott and co?
Hearing Tony Abbott complain about "dirty politics" in the Labor ranks and "changing the rules" for personal gain makes me cringe - fingernails down a blackboard cringe.
"""NEVER before has an Australian PM been tossed out like a fly in our soup in the first term of his government""""" - they cry and cry and cry. Except they're NOT crying.
He's putting on his best Lara Bingle face to court us - ask yourselves this: are you Pup? How much did Pup lose in his little Bingle engagement?
And instead of the media commentators pursuing the real issues - like the ABC's AM program which is currently in Darwin talking to real people about issues that affect them - our media commentators provide a forum for the Laras of the political world - and I'm not just talking about the gals here. The Leader of the Opposition is the Leader of the Pack here - the way he chops and changes and dodges and weaves.
At Q and A at Brisbane's Powerhouse this week I was in the audience listening to the familiar refrain that voters in Queensland are "emotionally attached" to Kevin Rudd because they so believed in the Kevin '07 campaign.
I'm sorry but to me it sounds a little like they're trying to make poor Kevin out to be Princess Diana! Princess Di he ain't!
I don't miss him - I didn't think much of his administration until I went to hear a world-renowned Nobel Prize-winning economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, speak at the University of Queensland.
I was so surprised that not even the Minister for Small Business, the Right Honorable (but extremely arrogant, or maybe just overwhelmed) Craig Emerson, defended the economic record of his own Government at Qanda - when Barnaby Joyce mouthed off about "THE DEBT".
I thought the Coalition had a good point - Australia's shocking level of debt - until Stiglitz pointed out what the world already knows: Australia's economy shimmers like a rainbow in a ruined global economic landscape BECAUSE the Rudd Government splurged to save people's jobs. Countries - even the USA - are in real trouble for a long while yet. We're in trouble too. Now I'm worried about a Coalition Government cutting spending to reduce debt and tagging us onto the end of the conga line. Somehow a tax on mining profits - a thriving sector of our economy - to reduce debt and pay for infrastructure makes sense.
I got home from Qanda at 11pm on Monday and found my gorgeous, three-month-old puppy had chewed the strap on my favourite (almost new) shoes almost straight through. It reminds me of all these gorgeous election promises - I don't think anyone's immune from teething problems Tony.
All those years that John Howard was cutting the last Labor Government's debt by stripping education and health and infrastructure programs of funding - only to give it away as baby bonuses which were spent on widescreen TVs. That's about all the Coalition Government did for the digital revolution.
I had a few questions I submitted to Qanda such as:
- What do election polls actually prove when they do not show people's disillusionment with all sides of politics - particularly for the depressing, tit-for-tat reactive election campaigning?
- What does it say about Australia that our politicians argue about how to solve crisis in our basic services - roads, infrastructure, education and health - as opposed to higher creative aspirations to build their dreams and contribute to the future of this country?
- Australians have to produce goods and services to earn a living but it seems politicians just puff themselves up and preen with little regard for the aspirations of the nation - what do you think the secret aspirations are of this nation?
Well? Can we hear about this over the last three weeks of this damn election? Forget the damn yellow ribbon. It's covered in carbon soot!
BTW: QandA is so much better when you have Twitter on your screen.