[it's rudd] howard could lose bennelong

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State of the parties not so long ago. Howard in trouble in his own seat to a former journalist.

This was a victory for youth and congratulations to Rudd - he looks young, wholesome and an Aussie, which is the type they like downunder.

And yet there's personal sadness for me, not just because I'm a conservative, not because of any of the politics down there but because an electorate chose a young man, a young message, over a message of caution and a tired PM.

Though Howard is so much older than me that he's actually in the former generation, yet his values still resonate with me. He is from an era where G-d, Queen and country had relevance, the three Rs at school - you know the sort of thing.

With him in this near landslide went virtually the last vestige of the old societal values I grew up with. I too am starting to feel irrelevant now in this equivocal, relativistic world where national heroes are Paris Hiltons and David Beckams and where blind teenage drinking is the norm, where immigrants won't support their new country.

So, nothing for it now than to buy that Desert Eagle, barricade myself in and wait for the end.