A disclaimer. This piece is tongue in cheek stuff ... just for fun (well, almost everything I post here is for laffin' at so, I suppose my opening remark is largely redundant.)
Whatever, the Melbourne University Centre for advanced Journalism has completed a survey of 1000 eligible federal voters over March/April to gauge the depth of interest abroad for the ever on-coming federal election, still +/- 4 months away. Here are the main findings published on Monday.
36% said they had no interest whatsoever in the the election or anything/anybody(?) connected with it.
58% (64% male 54% female) said they were fed-up with the quality of political leadership in Canberra, many adding that they think this is the worst-behaved federal parliament in memory.
73% said they has no confidence in press reporting of political matters ... whilst 71% thought TV reporting is also suspect.
Goodness ... the level of interest is breath-taking. Since these election thingies are expensive exercises, perhaps the AEC should run a plebiscite during the next 4 months to establish if it's worth putting on the 'big show' at all? Today's cartoon covers some pertinent questions which should illuminate the underlying attitude to Australian politics in general.
BTW ... nobody asked me anything.
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