Is my street a harbinger of a changing federal parliament?
Every time I pull into my driveway, I am confronted with the gigantic head of federal Fremantle Labor pollie Josh Wilson on an election placard near my neighbour's letterbox.
Surely, that chiselled, shapely hair has been photoshopped?
Directly across the road, there is another campaign sign for maverick Queensland senator Gerard Rennick's newly founded People's First Party.
The Liberal party defector's face is on the banner, surrounded by the two WA candidates for the Senate, who eerily resemble the grown-up Von Trapp kids from The Sound of Music.
Politicians naming a party after themselves have the same peculiar pomposity as a musician putting his name in the title of a yacht rock band.
A few doors down, Greens candidate Amy Warne's tiny sign leans on an angle, nestled among native plants, only metres away from two dusty, leaf-covered Priuses.
A couple of houses away, local independent Kate Hulett's poster is neatly wrapped around a small, fading, picket fence.
The prominent teal candidate is having a crack at the federal stage after coming within a whisker of knocking off Labor's Simone McGurk in last month's state election.
At the end of my street, there is a splattering of campaign placards belonging to micro-parties, whose unassuming names disguise policies that would make Donald Trump giggle.
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