Australians crave change. But this election won't deliver it | David Marr

What lies ahead is a gruelling and expensive campaign that will leave the country much as it was before
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We're off to the polls again. Australia has so much in abundance: coal, sunshine, iron ore and nine parliaments for 24 million people. There is always an election round the corner.

Yet for all this endless political activity, nothing much gets done.