{"id":176,"date":"2007-12-02T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=176"},"modified":"2007-12-02T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:27:54","slug":"well-done-david-bradbury-and-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Well done David Bradbury, and competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With another <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_federal_election,_2007\">federal election<\/a> behind us it was good to see a former <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrician_Brothers'_College\">high school<\/a> colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Bradbury\">David Bradbury<\/a> win a place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/index.htm\">Parliament House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David was always a model student and someone to look up to. His hard work is now paying massive dividends &#8211; first as a lawyer and now a member of parliament for the seat of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Division_of_Lindsay\">Lindsay<\/a> in outer Sydney. I&#8217;ll hold off on the professional liar jokes ;-).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope David becomes a model MP and helps spend our money more wisely than previous western Sydney pollies. Well done David!<\/p>\n<p>On the election in general, as much as I despise the undemocratic, bureaucratic, bi-partisan and incompetent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Labor_Party\">Labor<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberal_Party_of_Australia\">Liberal<\/a> duopoly that is Australian federal politics, at the very least it was good to see a change of the guard.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that&#8217;s the formula for better federal politics &#8211; less support for incumbent &#8220;leaders&#8221; and more seismic-scale shifts in voter support towards the opposition, and the minor parties, at <em>every<\/em> election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With another federal election behind us it was good to see a former high school colleague, David Bradbury win a place in Parliament House&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}