Passing Thoughts #5 ~ Election Day Limbo

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ An image that symbolises the current outcome!
Labour candidate for our Flinders division, Francis Ventura, (with back turned), will have no face in government.
Liberal Greg Hunt has clearly won in Flinders.
And current Labour PM Julia Gillard is still PM in waiting.
This is the closest Australian election in more than 50 years!
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Passing Thoughts #5 ~ Election Day Limbo
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Questions dog all candidates
The voters have spoken
But the dialogue
Needs
Decoding
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NOTES: Labour lady = Julia Gillard (first female PM) who ousted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (His nephew Van Rudd is standing for the Revolutionary Socialist Party)
Labour lost Melbourne to Greens candidate Adam Brandt
Liberal man = Tony Abbott
Youngest newly elected senator = Wyatt Roy (age 20), Longman division, Queensland
The Greens headed by Bob Brown
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Passing Thoughts #4 ~ Election Detour

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ On Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise, within the election hype, the deaths of two Australian troops at 10:30am yesterday, Afghanistan time, was announced.
Twenty Australian lives have now been lost there.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Meanwhile, other news carries on in the subtext
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Passing Thoughts #4 ~ Election Detour
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Election Day may be the prime interest
In some minds
But in other worlds
Life and death struggles
Never wait in
A time frame
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NOTES: Labour lady = Julia Gillard (first female PM) who ousted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (His nephew Van Rudd is standing for the Revolutionary Socialist Party)
Liberal man = Tony Abbott
The Greens headed by Bob Brown
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Passing Thoughts #3 ~ Voting Moments

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana Primary School was my voting place.
This smiling man happily posed for his photo in front of new building operations there.
He is handing out Julia Gillard leaflets.
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Passing Thoughts #3 ~ Voting Moments
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The Labour candidate (in the dark glasses and dark suit) for our Flinders district has a little chat.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The Liberal candidate for Flinders (holding the seat since 2001) arrived in large style.
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The cavalcade of politics is passing by
A day in the short life of an election
The seasonal fruits of campaign trails

Voting is all about impressions
Like preferred painting styles
But what do we really know about
The artist
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Other parties graced the side entrance
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NOTES: Labour lady = Julia Gillard (first female PM) who ousted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (His nephew Van Rudd is standing for the Revolutionary Socialist Party)
Liberal man = Tony Abbott
The Greens headed by Bob Brown
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Passing Thoughts #2 ~ Election Day Begins

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Strange, moody skies opened our Australian Election Day.
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Passing Thoughts #2 ~ Election Day Begins
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Strange, moody skies opened
The Australian day of campaign reckoning

The interim Labour lady
The smiling assassin
Would she be the ongoing Pied Piper

Or would the Liberal man of many "um's"
Work straight for some new choices

Some feel Australia should move forward
The Green way

Meanwhile
My morning kookaburra guests
Just felt
A good breakfast
To begin a new day was
Long overdue
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NOTES: Labour lady = Julia Gillard (first female PM) who ousted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Liberal man = Tony Abbott
The Greens headed by Bob Brown
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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