2028

2028. 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 10 years worse.

"I've found the Australian Douglas Adams!" —Tom Gleeson

"Hilarious." —Wendy Harmer

"It's awesome." —H.G. Nelson

"Absurdly funny." —Sami Shah

"Highly amusing." —John Doyle

"The revolution is coming." —Cathy Wilcox

"Fizzing with ideas." —Dominic Knight

Ken Saunders is a Sydney resident who moved to Australia from Canada in 1994. He has won several Australian and Canadian short-story prizes, including four awards in the Inner City Life competition jointly run by Gleebooks and the NSW Writers Centre. A long-time community worker and Programs Manager at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, he has been extensively involved in the promotion of community events. He started and ran a short-story competition for two years that was sponsored by Better Read than Dead. He is the founder and organizer of the satirical Sydneyvision Song Contest, a music video competition that has run for seven years in partnership with Dendy Cinemas. He has written, filmed, acted, and directed in numerous vignettes associated with the contest.