A beaut representative?

Senator Ricky Muir has WOWed! a lot of people with his belated 'maiden' speech to the Senate. Billed as some kind of weird petrol head in the aftermath of the last federal election, senator Muir has kept a pretty low profile since entering the parliament. Quite rightly it seems, because he now seems to be the epitome of an ordinary 'good bloke' who has found himself in a situation alien to any he has previously experienced in his adult life. There isn't much like parliamentary protocols to worry about when you're busy earning a quid as a country worker doing the best you can for a reasonably large dependent family.

Ricky has used his early days as a people's representative learning the ropes in his new work environment... not performing old tricks like many of his senate colleagues dancing to the tune played by party strategists. I personally LIKE what he had to say about his reasons for taking the extraordinary step of standing for parliament. Early days, but Ricky now sounds to me like a 'dinkum' Aussie bloke out to do the best he can for his family and the constituents whom he represents... and, is definitely NOT a party hack like many of the crowd currently occupying  seats in the federal parliament.

More power to his arm... and let's hope his example attracts other decent ordinary Australians to participate in the political process without being slaves to one doctrine or another.