This is the blog of a Norwegian (Marianne, aka 'M') who moved to Australia in 2007 to be with Roger (aka R) and feels lucky to have escaped a comparatively communistic country with ridiculous weather!

One of these suggestions was to allow a lot of immigration to increase Australia's population to 36 million by 2050 (current population is 20 million). The trouble with this is that infrastructure is already not keeping up with the current population growth. There are always roadworks everywhere, and you can't drive anywhere near the city without either being stuck in traffic or being held up by roadworks. By nearly doubling our population in the next 40 years, I can't even imagine the amount of roadworks and traffic problems we would see.

So after this news story, I like Julia better already.

I dug up a Norwegian news story about Julia becoming prime minister, and one paragraph actually says that she has been criticised for being unmarried and childless, saying that she cares more about politics than family.

I don't know where they got that from, because I live here, and I have not heard anyone say anything bad about her not being married or having children. What I did hear was someone say "she is a redhead who lives in a flat and eats takeaway food with her boyfriend!" and I think everyone loves her for it, because she's so untraditional.

I have heard people say bad things about her politics, but I have not heard her criticised at all for her lack of family life. Or for being a woman for that matter.

But as Roger said:

R: Why are they obsessing over what gender she is anyway? She's just a person; and that's it. End of story.

Awww:)