Things I'll miss

On Friday, I'm leaving for Europe for 4 months.

Things I'll miss about Australia while I'm gone:

• My family
• My friends
• Newcastle
• Australia

Things I won't miss about Australia while I'm gone:

• The carbon tax debate
• "News"papers
• Politicians hijacking #QandA and making it awful
• Commercial talkback radio
• The Laman St fig tree debate
• The Newcastle inner-city rail line debate
• Poll and focus-group driven politics
• Speeches by the leader of any federal political party
• The words: "Most Australians"
• Alan Jones
• People in the media who emulate Alan Jones
• Feasibility studies
• The pokies debate
• The plain packaging debate
• Australian television
• The NBN debate
• Electricity prices
• "I'm not a climate scientist, but..."
• The leader of one coalition saying that another coalition is "illegitimate"
• The idea of two CONSECUTIVE elections
• CityRail
• Level crossings (although I think they have those in Europe too)

Have all that fixed by the time I get back, won't you?