AS parliament resumed in late August, politicians were confronted by what organisers termed the "convoy of no confidence" - a group of citizens sufficiently outraged at the Gillard Labor government that they chose to drive big trucks to Canberra to vent their displeasure.As convoys go, this was a very poor imitation of past events, of which the gold standard remains the 1995 loggers blockade of Parliament House, aimed at an earlier Labor government. At best, those conducting the 2011 event managed around 200 trucks with Labor dismissing it as the "convoy of no consequence".
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