November 16, 2007
Bob Dylan once said--in Subterranean Homesick Blues ---that 'you don't need a weather man to tell you which way the wind blows'.
I thought of Dylan, the street poet, when I was in Canberra, as the mood on the Canberra streets last night was very different to, which had hung over the city for so long and depressed evereyone, had lifted.
A new political order is coming into being.

Spooner
The mood of the street was simple: the Coalition is history. Thank god. That public mood was very clear. The face of Kerrie Tucker, the Greens ACT Senate candidate, was everywhere. The mood was go Kerrie go.
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Gary,
do you think that the Liberals appear to be pulling resources out of Labor marginals and putting them into reasonably safe Liberal seats. Is their research telling them bad tidings?
They've only got a week to go to turn things around. As Leunig says in his cartoon in The Age its only eight more sleeps before the conservative ascendancy comes to an end