It's hardly been a "Woodstock moment". My guess is that Kevin Rudd is fast presiding over a do-nothing government that talks and talks and talks and then listens, listens, listens and distills their actions down to the least inoffensive possible which delivers a whole of nothing to everyobdy. However the public will love it because they will feel "included" in the great adventure which is Australian democracy.

Very little will actually be achieved on the ground however but the big symbolic gestures will be amplified and worshipped by the mesmerised sycophants characterised by most of the academic iluminati who propse these things in the first place. Peak Oil will challenge us to ask where our next meal will come from and that is not nearly as exciting as asking where our next Picasso will come from.