The Eye of the Storm

Today we’re in the eye of the political storm.

All the flurry of the election campaign has passed and today, polling day, is a day of relative calm. We all have to go and vote (and run the gauntlet of all those people shoving their how to vote cards at us) but it’ll be a fairly calm day politically.

Things will even be somewhat subdued tonight as millions of people sit around their televisions experiencing the thrill of vote counting. Retired politicians will be called on to give their expert opinions until finally a decision is drawn from it all.

Once a clear understanding of who has won is gained, be that tonight or tomorrow, the winner win celebrate, the loser will congratulate them …….. and then it’ll all ramp up again.

For the next few days we’ll hear endless analysis of who won and why. We’ll hear change of leadership speculation from within the losing party and we’ll hear why the winning side has come out on top.

In a little while the political scene should quieten down a little bit but you can never expect too much of a break.

Meanwhile, here in Western Australia, the end of the federal election will probably only signal the start of the state election campaign.

Posted by Rodney Olsen



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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He has worked in radio at Perth's media ministry Sonshine for over 25 years and has previously worked at ministries such as Compassion Australia and Bible Society.

The views he expresses here are his own.

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1 Comment

  • Those how to vote people have the potential to be really annoying. This year we were able to say a polite “No thankyou” and the people moved on (maybe they saw we had two kids at 10 minutes to lunchtime, in a line 20 minutes long).

    What a bad job, to be one of those people! I imagine most voters would have made up their minds and only take the ones they wanted, meanwhile you’d have to face the humiliation of seeing an opponent’s flier, in a voter’s hand. Or maybe they don’t take it that seriously?

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