To those who don't care about Australian politics i urge you to skip this post because that's what it's about :)
Brendan Nelson has just been announced as the leader of the Liberal party (now in opposition after losing to Kevin Rudd's Labor government on Saturday) in favour of Malcolm Turnbull.
Brendan Nelson is the member for my electorate of Bradfield and i've met him on several occassions and each time i've been less than impressed.
I voted for him in the 2007 Federal election because the labor candidate, Victoria Brookman, was a 22 year old who was much, much further to the left than i am comfortable seeing in Parliament.
Whilst Nelson has won each of the Federal Elections since 1996 and has held several positions within the Howard government I believe that he was the wrong choice as leader of the party right after the disasterous election defeat of John Howard.
Nelson is an arch-conservative who held education back 30 years in his criticisms of the new NSW HSC English syllabus which has now been adopted to several countries.
I only hope that this is a meticulously planned tactic to win in 3 years. After 18 months when everyone is disheartened by Nelson then they'll bring in Malcolm Turnbull and he'll reinvigorate the party to victory.
Sounds familiar...
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