CUNT PUNT (+24hrs)

I've spent the last 24hrs listening to the ABC. I have not been impressed. Here are my thoughts:

• If you'd listened to the way people were talking about Rabbit in question time today, you'd have sworn the man had died. It actually became self-parody a few times.
• Hopefully this takes some of the shine of the media myth that the ALP are a fractured, disorganised, rabble, and the Libs are mature statesmen who know how to manage an economy. Nope; in the end, they're pretty much all easily-panicked muppets who'll do anything to hold onto their seats.
• Any change that makes Rupert Murdoch tweet that he's sad, has to be a change for the better.
• Hopefully, this makes the pole a little greasier for Corey Bernadi. He was doing a little too well under Abbott for my liking.
• Somehow, Julie Bishop has retained her deputy position. Again. With a huge margin. If nothing else, I find her survival skills incredible.
• Barnaby Joyce is a joke. He can huff and puff and make all the veiled threats that he wants, but the Nats haven't done fuck all for rural Australia in the last few decades, so there's no way they're going to risk the coalition over this.
• Please stop saying that we've had "five prime ministers in five years". We haven't. Two of them were the same bloke. That's like if I had two pairs of undies that I wore on alternate days for a fortnight and then said "I've worn fourteen sets of knickers over the past two weeks". It's bloody misleading. Now, you could say that we've changed PM four times in the last five years. You could also say we've had four PMs in the last two years. Both of those are just fine.
• Also, please stop talking about how foreign media outlets are covering the story. Apart from the Asia-Pacific region, nobody else in the world gives a rat's arse about Australian politics. Most yanks think we're situated somewhere between Hungary and Switzerland. The only reason we've gotten a mention on the BBC is because they're a 24hr news channel, and there's only so many times you can run the same depressing footage of Syrian refugees in an hour.
• And another thing, the markets didn't get a "short-lived bounce" off the back of the leadership change. The markets fluctuate normally every day, and most people trading stocks don't give a shit who's running the country. The same goes for Australian business confidence. If the menu isn't changing, why would it matter one iota to business owners who sits at the head of the table?
• The prevailing message that most Liberal party members seem to be taking away from this whole ordeal is that they had the policy and leadership stuff exactly right, but Tony Abbott just wasn't a deft enough salesman. I don't know how much credit I give the average Aussie punter anymore, but I pray to god this isn't true.

And now, thankfully, it's time to turn this shit off and relax with some Norwegian symphonic metal. (A prize of indeterminate value might possibly go to anyone who can tell me what film the video was taken from. I'm really curious to know.)