The nation is in a distinctly democratic mood.
Mutinous vibrations are most definitely afoot.
Social, political and financial commentators are at a loss to fathom its like, but there is more than just a suspicion that, at its source, it is 'filthy lucre'. Initially directed at members of the Liberal Government who, public opinion made clear, had begun to bathe themselves in the excesses of Australia's good economic fortune, the venom has now decidedly spilled over from Labor's traditional support base to one of the Liberals' - the sharemarket. The culture of 'filthy lucre' is infecting the Boardrooms of Australia, and shareholders have had enough. It is with one eye on the outrageous fortunes of two One. This was not how it was supposed to be.