Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership.
So what could possibly go wrong? The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected - an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd? Welcome to the Australia of 2028 where parking meters double as poker machines, radio shock jocks have been automated, the Communist Party of China has turned itself into a multinational corporation and ASIO's glory days are so far over that it's resorting to surveillance of a Charles Dickens reading group. Outrageous, sharp and wickedly funny, 2028 takes us into the near future where the not very good ideas around today have become ten years worse.
2028 is an Australian political satire set in the year 2028, during a federal election campaign. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams, of the Liberal Party is feeling confident about securing a fourth term – the Greens are in receivership following a lawsuit from a chemical company, the Labor leader is incompetent and just happy to be invited and his cabinet is, finally, against all odds, somewhat competent. Then a spanner is thrown in the works when a group of nude protesters show up at the election announcement. Their names are all Ned Ludd and they call themselves the Luddite party.
On the surface, 2028 is an acerbic and cynical takedown on the state of Australian politics, where polls matter more than policies. Underneath, however, it presents an optimistic view of the Australian people and presents a world where they’d get a lot done if they only had someone to believe in. Even if that person is a naked woman called Ned Ludd.
