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Ah 2013 … you were a weird year.
Personally, I spent most of the year working like a maniac and accidentally causing minor damage to myself. Given what was going on in politics here, I could only have improved things by hiding in a cupboard when not at work.
It was the year of three Prime Ministers in Australia. We began with Julia Gillard: hard-working, competent, dreadful at PR but actually very good at legislating, running one of the most successful legislative programmes in years despite a minority government.
She was unarguably* the target of a great many vile sexist attacks, and, when she mentioned one or two, was shouted down for being anti-woman by Julie Bishop and Sophie Mirabella, members of the then-Opposition conservative Coalition. Australians were once good at irony, but it seems to be going out of fashion.
( Quite a lot happened … )
It wasn't all madness. In good news, Black Caviar retired undefeated, the new Pope seems to actually live up to his hype, and Michael Schumacher's last medical report was cautiously positive. Hush, we're mad Tifosi here. Let us not speak of cricket.
Here's to a much better 2014. I plan to spend less of it at work! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!! I am off to find the bubbly and wait for the fireworks.
( And then some footnotes … )
It was the year of three Prime Ministers in Australia. We began with Julia Gillard: hard-working, competent, dreadful at PR but actually very good at legislating, running one of the most successful legislative programmes in years despite a minority government.
She was unarguably* the target of a great many vile sexist attacks, and, when she mentioned one or two, was shouted down for being anti-woman by Julie Bishop and Sophie Mirabella, members of the then-Opposition conservative Coalition. Australians were once good at irony, but it seems to be going out of fashion.
( Quite a lot happened … )
It wasn't all madness. In good news, Black Caviar retired undefeated, the new Pope seems to actually live up to his hype, and Michael Schumacher's last medical report was cautiously positive. Hush, we're mad Tifosi here. Let us not speak of cricket.
Here's to a much better 2014. I plan to spend less of it at work! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!! I am off to find the bubbly and wait for the fireworks.
( And then some footnotes … )