Australian Federal politician John Chambers Eldridge at his Underwood 5 typewriter in his electoral office during the last year of his term as the Labor Party Member for Martin. Eldridge (1872-1954), represented Martin from October 12, 1929, to December 19, 1931. In 1916, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force.
Some Australians took delight last week in sharing on Facebook the Mother of Sarcasm meme, "America and Britain are having a competition on who can f*** themselves up the most. Britain [following Brexit] is in the lead, but America has a Trump card." Those same Australians might now be feeling just a little bit silly themselves, given this country did a pretty good job of stuffing itself up in the Federal elections held last Saturday. Silly, that is, if they have any comprehension at all of the ungovernable nation they're created for the foreseeable future. And that in itself is very doubtful. Indeed, if they're still feeling smug, they're more stupid than even I could have imagined.
The incumbent Prime Minister, for the time being, is Malcolm Turnbull, who as a child used a Mercedes portable, and later as a Bulletin and London Sunday Times journalist a Nakajima Chevron. Turnbull, who seems likely to remain in power, albeit with a very slender majority, pulled the double dissolution trigger back in early May and during one of the longest election campaigns in Australian history (a tortuous eight weeks) he used this logo to try to get himself re-elected. Please note how close it is in design to the logo for the Early Typewriter Collectors' Association (ETCetera). The upshot, sadly, was that the vast majority of Australian voters interpreted ETCetera as meaning: