Firstly, our big brother the UK and June 24 saw the voting public decide to “brexit” the sharehouse known as the European Union. 

Everything seemed to be going so well until a couple of squatters crashed on the couch and some of the roomies (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus) couldn’t pay their rent. 

Still, they were all mates with a roof over their head and now the UK is busking on the street and looking for a one-bedroom apartment.

They say you shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken and the Motherland may have to learn that lesson the hard way. 

Something that does need fixing however is the US 22nd Amendment that prevents a President from serving for more than two terms. 

Love him or hate him, Barack Obama will go down as one of his country’s greatest leaders, bringing stability to a tumultuous nation. 

I was living in the US just after the 2012 election and I thought the worst possible outcome would be a country run by Mitt Romney. 

I could not have been more wrong. 

Now we are faced with the possibility of Donald Trump becoming the 45^th President of the United States and that makes me sick to my stomach. 

All we can do is hope that Americans will vote in droves and do the right thing…

Back on our home soil and our longest federal election campaign is almost over (I can hear the collective sigh of relief from you all). 

Come July 2 make sure you head on down to a polling booth, grab yourself a democratic sausage and make your vote count – even though it probably won’t. 

If recent history tells us anything, whichever party wins will most likely oust their leader in six months and someone we didn’t elect, with a more popular polling figure, will become Prime Minister. 

Circle of life and all that. 

Until a politician comes along who thinks in the long term, puts party ideology aside and can organise bipartisan policy, I do not see anyone forming a lasting, stable Australian government. 

The system works people.