Feeling Blue...

Warning, if you are a vocal Tony Abbott supporter you are welcome but you may wish to skip down to pictures below.

Well today Australia has a new Prime Minister & although there were scandals and behaviour issues on both sides, we now have a rude unenlightened man as our leader, we will need to be the 'lucky' country  to get through this guy's term unscathed there a million reasons why this should have never happened, and no party is blameless, in Australia we all have a wonderful democratic right to choose our leader (even if the US media magnate Rupert Murdoch's mass media campaign seem responsible for choosing this one)... 

I was brought up in loving household where intelligent political debates were encouraged, didn't matter whose political party you preferred, but also a home where 'fair play' was insisted on, liars not tolerated and the right to vote an opportunity & great responsibility for the future of our country.

Now I want to tell you a short story, share a snippet from my Saturday, poll day... 

I was at a place called Nambour based in the sub-tropical hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, by coincidence it actually is the place our former (as from last night) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hails from, and, yesterday it happened to be holding the 'Collectorama Fair' (basically a huge fun trash & treasure, everything from antiques & clothing to comic books & bowling balls)... 

It was hot... I sat at a shared table huddled with my 2 girls, friend Jo and her daughter Erin on some available white plastic chairs to escape the midday sun, at the other end of the large wooden table a woman proceeded to state her political views... it went like this (as Memphis can testify)...

Kevin Rudd was evil, as a matter of fact he was going to hell because if he gets in power he will allow those 'homo-sex-u-als' to get married, this woman (get this) was a 'good Christian woman' (as she announced it at the table, loud & proud) and although she prays to the lord for gays to be cured, she can't accept their 'un-nat-ural' ways, and THAT was why she was voting for Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott (for people outside of Australia, Liberal Party is anything but, it is the right-wing conservative party), apparently the only thing she didn't like about Liberal Party Leader Tony Abbott was he was a 'Cath-o-lic' and as everyone knows they are ALL 'ped-o-philes' but he was ok she declared as he has THREE daughters (yep I was enlightened, they had been appearing by his side at every interview & photo-op, apparently to this woman it proved he was NOT hom-o-sexual or a ped-o-phile although she seemed to think those 'con-dic-tions' were one in the same. UGGGGGGH.

My girls & our party of 5 were horrified, gagging on my salad wrap, my heart sank... Tony Abbott is the man who is convinced the scientists are lying about global warming, who doesn't believe in gay rights (unless it's to pay taxes LOL). As we sat on the plastic chairs at that spot by the hot chips and pie stand at the Nambour Showground I realised I'd over-estimated the intelligence of the voting public and started to sweat in the shade, and I realised the public will get the government it deserves... Shame the rest of us Aussies will cop it too. 

When this woman was confronted that she was a little prejudice she responded she wasn't prejudiced because she had prayed for a transvestite years ago and now he was cured & married, but unfortunately this guy still sounded 'gay' BUT (she explained to us as if we were morons), Germans once they come to Australia still sound 'German' because that is the way they're born even though they may be 'Australian' now... So... Apparently the ex-transvestite still 'sounds' gay, even though 'cured', just like the German, you can't get rid of the accent once you have changed... 

True & scary insight into one vocal Abbott supporter... 

Ohh but I got a bowling ball for $2 so the day wasn't a total downer ;)

But it had me feeling blue... hence... continuing with my Sept 29 Faces (both of these full artworks are on my seperate '29 Faces' page if you want to check them out.

Day 6 Feeling Blue

& Day 7 Ocean Dream, from the depths a watery blue-tinged mermaid

Oh yes I defend anyone's right to rant (even that woman at the showground) but really hate intolerance & injustice and ignorance through choice.

Have a great week & let's create a better fairer world for all (although that may have to wait 'til next election) ;)