Three more years?

Published: July 31, 2007, 8:27 am

The blogosphere spends an enormous amount of time and energy trying to predict who will win the next election, and micro-analysing the implications of events happening from day to day (and sometimes hour to hour) for the election outcome. It's politics as spectator sport, with lots of people taking a violently partisan interest in the outcome as an end in itself. While the thrill of the competition to see who wins is all good fun, it's probably more constructive to consider the practical consequences of alternative outcomes. It can help to calm euphoric tendencies. The other day I posted some thoughts suggesting that a Rudd Labor Government would at best make some modest moves in the right direction in some policy areas, while leaving the Howard legacy intact in others. The extent to which a Labor government would do anything at all depends on the election outcome. No matter what happens, Howard's mob will unfortunately have a majority in the Senate until the middle of next

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