The suggestion that Kevin Rudd's "me-too-ism" is a bad thing ignores the fact it is exactly what I have been wishing for for years.

I have always desired an opposition party who listened to the policies of the government, thought about it, and agreed when appropriate. All too often I've been given the impression that the only point of an opposition party was to oppose.

Parliament works best when issues are argued and refined. A party that says up-front they're willing to agree with their opposite, rather than argue for the sake of it, is one I will respect.

If the ALP lose, I hope Kevin Rudd remains opposition leader, and works with the ruling parties when their policies agree.

Perhaps in doing so, he could get them to return the favour.

My thoughts on the difference between Labor and Liberal have already been summed up by John Howard during the Liberal election launch, "love me or loathe me, the Australian people know where I stand and what I believe in."

I know exactly where John Howard stands, and I do not agree with him.

Dave has nicely summed up my main opposition to John Howard. A vote for Liberal is a vote for oppression.

The most telling example of the ideals of the Liberals is seen in their Victorian Senate preferences. The Coalition's Victorian Senate group ticket preferences Family First, Democratic Labor Party and the Christian Democrats before any other party. A quick glance at the group tickets of other states shows the Liberals have given preferences to Family First in every state.

I find this particularly fascinating as Family First and the Liberal Party disagree on a large number of issues. Family First are against the war in Iraq, in favour of an apology to the stolen generation, against large elements of WorkChoices, and in favour of fast on-shore processing of asylum seekers.

With such obvious clashes in policy, one can only assume they've been given such high preferences in every state for what they do agree on. I leave Wikipedia's Family First article to inform you of what those policy agreements might be.

Update: A quick look at the Lib's how-to-vote suggestions for the lower house shows they've given Family First their preferences there too. But they're much easier for an elector to ignore...

Regurgitator are finally releasing the DVD of the Band In The Bubble experiment. It will include an edited version of the thousands of hours of footage of the band slowly going insane listening to Jabba go through withdrawal, while attempting to record the album Mish Mash in front of the public.

Mucho fun!

The DVD package will also include the full Escape From The Bubble gig at Fed Square and the videos from Mish Mash (which were not on the Jingles DVD compilation).

Unfortunately it's not out until after Christmas.

I also found out yesterday that the Regurgitator gig recorded by liveband.com.au will not be released as two of the microphones were not working properly. Those that bought liveband vouchers at the gig can get refunds. They've yet to update their website with this information...