Next week Australians head to the polling booths to elect a new government or to return the old one. With current polls showing a large number of ‘undecideds’ there is always the likelihood of a repeat of 2010, when a couple of miserable independents got to call the shots in one of the great farces in our political history – the final decision to anoint a Gillard government apparently coming from the gormless Rob Oakeshott’s six-year-old daughter.
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