The Education Revolution is here! Now all we have to do is figure out what the hell it is. The first promise is a computer for every student. What does this do for them? Sure they will learn how to search for porn at exponential rates but I am not quite sure what it does from a pure ‘education’ perspective. A pencil and paper should still form the main tools of trade for the learning period of a child’s life, shouldn’t they?

The fact that K.Rudd sent his MP’s into class rooms this week to report on what is required to ‘improve things’ indicates to me that the education revolution was nothing more than a catch phrase with no real substance backing it.

Here is a thought K.Rudd, send your MP’s into the hospitals and suburban medical centres and get a report back on what is require to ‘improve things’ here…..

The removal of Work Choices. I am not sure what this will do to me personally? I have never been represented by a union and always had to negotiate working conditions individually. All I know is DHL workers are already threatening to strike if their demands aren’t met soon. A prediction of airline strikes over the Xmas period has also been mentioned to me and would not surprise.

I am also annoyed the Goodna bypass, west of Brisbane will be scrapped. All these rich people who live out on acre ridge in Brisbane’s western ‘leafy’ suburbs have successfully forced the rest of us to endure 7 years of road construction on the Ipswich Motorway (car park) which will also force extra traffic onto other Brisbane thoroughfares. For goodness sakes you bunch of pony riding rich sooksy la la’s, let us build a big arse road around you so we can lighten the load on our already over populated two lane dirt tracks. I can’t believe the number of people who live in Brisbane and the piddley little road system we are forced to endure.

John Howard’s concession speech will remain with me for a long time. Except for the stupid moron cheering annoyingly loud. It was very respectful of the position he has held and accepting of the people’s decision, no matter how stupid it was. I just wished he had thrown in a bit of ‘you can take the boy out of Bennelong but you cant take Bennelong out of the boy’ rhetoric that Keating so ungraciously dribbled after his defeat in 1996.

One thing is for sure, the country won’t fall apart like many Chicken Little’s seem to fear and I suspect our lives will be relatively unaffected.