Pendulum swings

Another election is over and this time it’s team red celebrating their victory whilst team blue licks their self-inflicted wounds.

So, what does that mean for the rest of us and will this event turn our country into a land of milk and honey as promised?

My suggestion is don’t hold your breath!

I suspect we’ll see some broken election promises and if things get worse, the incumbent government will blame the previous one.

We’ll see the billionaires who influenced this election get richer whilst the working class keep struggling to make ends meet. The climate will keep on changing as it has done for millennia, bushfires and floods won’t magically disappear, and the world’s emissions will keep rising – regardless of who wins government.

Our insatiable appetite for cheap Chinese imports and self-imposed red tape will keep hampering local production.

Our adversaries will get more brazen and aggressive regardless of how hard we try to appease them.

But there is one more thing – in an ideal world the political pendulum swings gently between the centre right and centre left – frequently passing through the middle.

It currently sits much further left than ideal.

Some may rejoice at this situation, but consider this: the further left it goes, the more momentum it picks up when it inevitably swings back to the right again.

Kon Stachovic, Meadows