Here’s the plot: an unmarried, foreign-born, atheist woman whose partner is a male hairdresser wants to lead a major nation famous for manly men. Her opponent is the “Mad Monk” — a Speedo-loving amateur boxer who once studied to be a priest. The latest Fox sitcom? Nope, it’s the script for next month’s Australian election.
William Pesek, Bloomberg News
It’s good to see the rest of the world is enjoying our election, even if it’s boring-as-batshit for those of us living through it. I find it disturbing that the first week of the campaign was so devoid of substance that I was unable to find any scope for meaningful analysis. (And the remaining four weeks don’t offer much hope either.) The sense that this is ‘an election about nothing’ is, frankly, infuriating.
