Pulping pamphlets, mailouts and posters is one thing.

But when you’ve gone larger than life with a prime minister, his removal becomes more than simply calling the industrial shredding company to collect your bags of election material.

In west Gosford, in the seat of Robertson where Deborah O’Neill ousted sitting MP and parliamentary owner of the adjective “feisty”, Crikey reader Belinda Neal discovered the prosaic reality of Kevin Rudd’s fall from grace . You have to look hard to find it…

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But it’s worth it. Kevin Rudd’s version of the Straight Talk Express – at least up Gosford way – now lives out a lonely existence in an industrial park.

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Mind you, ‘On Our Side’ is a damn sight better than ‘Moving Forward’, vehicular conveyance or not.