Election 2016 The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Dear voter if you haven’t already voted, tomorrow is a big day. I’ve done a pre poll. Gotta speak at a conference on charitable funding to assist poor people the world over to get on with life. It’ll be a stellar event, I’ll be traveling business class.

Normally i’d prefer first class, but an integral part of my charity to which I am head, is for our people to be encouraged to explore just what it’s like to be downtrodden. And with the current post brexit fallout i’m doing my bit, as business is really feeling the pinch. Still it’ll be a good conference. My talk, which I think is part of the closing symposium, is titled; ‘closing the poverty gap’. I’ll be talking about how difficult it is for charitable CEO’s to punch through the complacency of a public suffering from charity fatigue. I understand that as a singular issue.

You see we as a charity also run an employment arm in which we provide training initiatives for long term unemployed. Some of them are hard cases, but with reliable federal funding that is assured, we can provide long term training that may get a few a niche in the ever expanding service sector. And for some of them it’ll put real meaning back into their lives. Through service, as we all know, (being a christian charity) comes a sense of self worth. It’s an important component of humanity, of what separates us from machines.

Von Trapp Family climbing every other Mountain. My hotel suite is just a few degrees to the right of the ridge in the background.

I like to stay in the regal suite of my referred hotel in Davos, its got a lovely vista of the ski fields and mountain peaks. In spring and summer, you could swear you were living on the set of ‘Sound of Music’. I love the ‘Sound of Music’, it’s an inspiration to me, how Maria led a non LGBTI family away from oppression so they could flourish in the land of the free. I see that as a signature to this election. Do we stay imprisoned in the here and now, or do we climb every mountain? God tells us to climb that mountain, and when you get to the other side, climb the other one. The road to purity and redemption is fraught.

That’s why I drive to the other side. As part of my CEO package, I get quite a nice late model sports car, and there’s all manner of hire car options in the senior executive range on offer at the hotel desk. Yesterday it was an Audi, they’re quite nice, and tomorrow I’m thinking of a Porsche Boxter. As part of my package, I can get every alternative day free, as it’s indexed to my frequent flyer points. I found the Jag, very comfortable but just a little sluggish on the uphill, so i’ll really put the foot down and feel the wind in my hair. It’s life affirming.

‘The pundits are signalling a comfortable coalition win, rest assured we’re in safe hands’.

Bit like just before I left Australia, I had to talk at a seminar on public housing policy, as a major contributor to the policy paper, ‘negative gearing the first gear in the ladder of opportunity”. I actually had to drive, sans chauffeur to Dandenong. What I saw shocked me, and it was some time before I was sufficiently composed to greet some recently arrived africans and award them for micro business start ups. It’s onerous work, and I’m destined by God to do it. Still, glad my vote’s in, The pundits are signalling a comfortable coalition win, rest assured we’re in safe hands.