In 'God's Own Country'

I've been a bit quiet lately as I have travelled half way around the world to Australia. The dumb election campaign is on where even out lesbian politicians have been forced by party discipline to say that they are against gay marriage, and the ads on TV are gutter aimed at gutter. Australia in the 1990s was aiming to become the 'clever country' in order to survive in this post-industrial world. However, 2010 shows that it's very much the dumb country, where the opposition want to stop broadband internet being implemented because 'it will cost too much' - whole suburban areas of Australia's main cities and most of the countryside still uses dial-up internet! The latent racism is ever present too. Oh dear, get me out of here!