Misspelling wisdom.

Other than books & films derived from the wafer-thin imagination of Stephenie Meyer, there's nothing less interesting to me than Australian politics. It's a wisdom-free entity in which 99% of time, energy and press coverage is spent on who's in charge, who wants to be charge, who used to be in charge, and who conceivable down the track could be in charge if only they 'put their hand up' and 'front up' to the task of being head-shouter for their party.

Malcolm Turnbull (right), the leader of the opposition party (the party that lost the last election) got voted out today and replaced by a lunatic named Tony Abbott (top left). Turnbull was kicked to the curb because of his support for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme (ETS). Abbott, who only weeks ago also favored passing Rudd's ETS legislation prior to nations of the world gathering in Copenhagen to discuss global warming, has done what most politicians do: Alter his position in exchange for political power.

Without getting too technical, it's possible for a prime minister to call for a double dissolution when the two houses of parliament cannot agree on a bill. Clearly, the ETS legislation is now dead, so some will call on Rudd to 'dissolve' both houses and start afresh if he believes the majority of Australians want this bill to pass.

An article in this morning's Age newspaper included a classic misspelling that captures voter sentiment on the entire mess:

The Liberals also decided to vote down the emissions trading scheme legislation if they could not defer the bill this week. That move will give the Government a trigger for a double-disillusion election.

The spelling has since been corrected. I think they had it right the first time -- most voters are undoubtedly dissillusioned by a group of (mostly) men who spend their days and nights scheming to claim the mantle of a flacid throne.