Within about a year, we fortunate Australians face the constitutional inevitability of a federal election. Today we groan under a government lost in lies, mired in muddle, corruption and incompetence, and led by a shabbily discredited prime minister, frantically clinging to the wreckage of a once-respected high office which she has not merely failed, but soiled. But we are lucky citizens, in that our basic law provides us with a civil and peaceful remedy for present ills, without violence and revolution. In idle hours of recent weeks I have been speculating, leisurely and at large, on just what may await…