Philobiblon

Just imagine, John Howard and his band of not-so-merry, “human rights what are they?” men, wiped out:

A state-by-state analysis of Herald/ACNielsen polls for the past six months provides the first detailed impression of Mr Howard’s doomsday prediction last week that his 11-year-old Government faced “annihilation”.
The analysis of 8156 voters reveals that if voting intentions were carried into the polling booth on election day, as many as 46 of the 87 Liberal and Nationals seats could be wiped out.

It is highly unlikely, unfortunately, to happen exactly this way, but still, with a bit of luck, the Australian conservatives will enter a long period of wilderness like that endured by their British counterparts after John Major – through surviving in power too long.

Whether Australia can ever recover from them, however, is another question.