Rude Awakenings

 

Pic courtesy primer.com.au

Once again, gentle reader, the media is replete with narratives, strange but true, about the behaviour of the boys and girls in Canberra.

It has become bleedingly obvious that the hallowed and timeworn power balance between the genders in both major parties has been upset. Intriguingly, whilst most of our elected representatives have understood the changes, there are quite a few for whom the penny has yet to drop.

Notable amongst these are individuals like our most previous prime minister, the current member for New England, and a certain senator for the state of Victoria. The previous PM made a mess of his party's management of the Brittany Higgins debacle, which, in the wash up, has become a human tragedy, leaving a trail of victims, and costing the Australian taxpayer a great deal of money.

The member for New England continues to pontificate about how relationships between elected representatives and their staff should be managed, despite his chequered history.

And the Victorian senator has been revealed as a streaming hypocrite, after being interrupted in mid sermon by one of his alleged victims. It didn't take long for other alleged victims to emerge.

Even the election of a swathe of female TEAL members, partially on the coattails of this changing power balance seems to have gone unnoticed by these three individuals who are representative of a rapidly disappearing group of parliamentarians. They remind me of a herd of artificially inseminated  cows.

They are vaguely aware that something very significant has happened, but are utterly bewildered about its consequences.