A lovely day in the neighbourhood

One week after the election that changed the country

On May 21, federal election day in the Year 2022, I stood in a line outside my local polling booth at the Victorian College of Arts Secondary School (VCASS), a school my son had attended from Year 9 until Year 12, and it was a beautiful sunny day, maybe 17 degrees, the inner-city air strangely crisp, with the sense of us being balanced precisely on the …