Double D spectre haunts political scene

Just when we are basking in the warm afterglow of our local government election... this happens

YOUR SAY: It doesn't seem fair does it?

Just when we are basking in the warm afterglow of our local government election and congratulating Mayor Antonio, plus successful councillors, fresh from the airwaves comes talk of a "Double D".  

For the uninitiated, Double D is not something from a ladies lingerie shop, but is in fact a double dissolution of both House of Representatives and Senate in that faraway mad place that could be referred to as "Planet Canberra".  

This is all getting too much, what with a State Election last year, a Local Government Election last weekend and in July probably, a dreaded "DD".   

I have been thinking of buying the latest Bill Bryson travel book on England,

"The Road to Little Dribbling."

Scrub that idea, for there will be an excess of political dribbling going on, from all sides in the next two months on the road to long insanity for the poor electorate.  

My local member, John McVeigh, is dropping out of state politics and going for the Federal scene.

Will he immediately resign to be in the running for the DD? and if so, when will be the by-election for his State seat?

See how taxing this is all becoming to a poor elector's brain?  

But help is at hand! Just when the "DD'" is mooted, up pops on the ABC television screen Antony Green, the election expert commentator.

He is kept out of sight somewhere, but always surfaces at Federal or State election times like a big benevolent and beloved garden gnome you really need to lean on at times such as this.  

Antony is the only one I can rely on to "sniff the wind" through all the political dribble that has already started and I recommend all readers to tune in closely to him.  

Peter Knobel, Cossart St, Toowoomba

Originally published as Double D spectre haunts political scene