Not sure if it’s made much of a blip on the international news radar

But here in Australia

We’ve got ourselves a new Prime Minister

There wasn’t an election

So, the people of Australia, didn’t vote for our new Prime Minister

We just kind of ’swapped’ him for his Deputy Prime Misister

Their political Party, the Labour party, decided that our Prime Minister (up until last night) Kevin Rudd, wasn’t up to scratch

So they ousted him

Staged a revolt

Kicked him to the curb

He even cried in his departing speech

Ah, the kill or be killed mentality of politics

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So Julia Gillard got the job

She’s unmarried

Not born in Australia

Has no kids

These things, I think, would be sure to NOT get her the job in other countries

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The next election will decide if the Australian people are up for her style of Politics

No one seems bothered by the fact that she’s a woman

Our first ever female Prime Minister

The fact that she is a ranga has red hair

IS going to take some getting used to though

The jokes have already started

And I’m think I might even write a song for her

I will, from now on, refer to her as PM BEAKER

For obvious reasons

Now, where’s my guitar?

There are some things that are guaranteed to make you smile

Certain photos, videos

I was looking through some photos from the last month

As I start to put together the video blog for the WA leg of this tour

And got to these pics

And just started laughing

When I spent the day with Sammy for her birthday

We started off with a pedicure

And it didn’t take long to work out she’d never had one before

She was so ticklish

And giggly

The ladies that worked at the salon thought we were idiots

The lady doing my feet didn’t like me at all

Which, if you’ve smelt my feet, is totally understandable

She was filing & buffing away so much it hurt

But it was hard to concentrate on that when I was getting so much joy out of watching Sammy squirm

And wriggle as she giggled

Like I said, the ladies that worked there thought we were complete fuckwits

And I KNOW they thought we had more than coffee in our coffee cups

I think it was pretty obvious