Congratulations are now in order for one Andrew Wilkie, our new member for Denison in Tasmania.

Apart from the fact that God’s great bounty should not be squandered on War and Conflict, Andrew Wilkie did not think that it was good practice for politicians to distort our best advice in favour of fundamentalist type views.

Sure Saddam Hussain was a despot; but all we know now is that dead men tell no tales.

Also opening up another ‘terror wars’ front in Iraq has been very very costly at a bad time.

I can only guess at what kind of trouble Andrew Wilkie has had to suffer…

Lucky for us Andrew Wilkie has had the fortitude and perseverance to get right back on the horse and inject himself into the political process.