Not that we ever meant it to be anything but 4 weeks work --standing out in the rain was fun because in the strangest of ways - I was among friends .The sort of friends who will give it back as hard as you giive it them but who care in ways that you do - agreeing to disagree . People who were passionate about how to change the world for good .All the important people were there ( almost and for a while ) although our mate Grant wasn't there and Natalie would have been busy elsewhere, talking as we were though about how to look after our kids, the environment and the path to common good in governance .
The greatest paradox of the day was that all of us agreed intensely that the environment needed better administration and the party that claimed to represent that issue was not to be heard all day on the subject . Did we all agree about what to do after hours of constant talk about the details of better administration of environment ? ( landcare , planning ) - of course not . Did I push my case for the Libs to be the best env party ever too hard - probably, because the Libs have been far too slow to take competent advice seriously . If they win ( which was our point in pushing for them to) they will have to face the enormous task of having to deal with an incompetent and poorly skilled spin fed Public service that won't want to go back to square one and do the job properly . I know I was there .
Good luck to them I say . It was so wet I had to put corflutes over the convertable to keep the rain out . The windscreen wipers stopped working on the trip there . I did a panic - one thing you can't do is go across the 3hour wide electorate without windscreen wipers PG the motor was Ok ; wire loom to the steering column had dropped out - the car is 36years old . Everyone loved the bike .
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