Normally if I was without job I would freak out.
Not this time though. I knew something good would happen sooner, rather than later. And after six week of waiting with some very dodgy temp work in between, a couple of muggings to make ends meet, a trip to Shakespeare Grove to see if I could cut it as a rent boy (actually forget about that, I was just cruising), something good did happen.
Yep, that’s right folks I am now the Curriculum and Projet Manager of a commercial visual arts college here in Melbourne.
Yay me. Clever me.
I start next week.
When the meanest man in Australian history was knifed by the Australian public on that glorious Saturday in November, I was overjoyed.
I wept, I drank and I passed out.
However no matter how happy I was, I had always suspected that one day far too soon that my disillusion with the conservative Kevin07 would soon manifest itself once again in tele-temper, where I would start yelling and swearing at the TV.
On Saturday 30 May 2008, after a six month remission, I succumbed.
After a flying start, apologising to our Indiginous brothers and sisters and reigniting the republican debate, I began to suspect Mr Rudd wasn’t quite as conservative as I had feared. I was wrong.
Australian political debate in now marred in the quagmire of ’super or unleaded’.
That’s right folks, we are stuck talking about measures that will save the average punter less than one hundred bucks a year, while hitting top gear as we propel ourselves headfirst into environmental oblivion. Great!
It gets better though. In the recent budget, money earmarked for employment services was reduced by $500 million bucks. (I bet Therese ain’t too happy about that). If Australia is to be a fully inclusive society – and they keep palavering on about wanting a nicer, more comfortable and relaxed Auastralia, then that money needs to be spent in getting the long-term jobless into work. Not continuing the meanness of Howard’s rock painting Work for the Dole scheme.
What can I say? I told me so.
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