With one day to go the media are at fever pitch speculating about the election.
"Who cares?" says Louise, "I've been well and truly over it for the past six weeks."
We hear that sentiment a lot but, in a land of compulsory voting, almost everyone prefers to cast a vote rather than receive a fine. And most of them vote formally.
And so the magic of "polling" before the poll is almost as important as the poll itself. Or so the pollsters would have us think. 
A life in advertising has underlined to me the importance of knowing what people think when taking products and services to market. We called it market research, which is just a business-like name for polling and Australia has been very good at it.
Increasingly, this discipline has become a worldwide industry in itself, aimed at predicting all sorts of consumer demand and opinion.
All that seemed to be working pretty well until last week in the northern hemisphere when all of the polling was predicting that Britain would remain in the EU.
Even the bookies were betting on it. Where have we got to when the humble bookmaker is starting to run the thinking of governments all over the world? Although, they do tend to get horse racing right. 
"It's easier to study the true form of any mammal other than the human," says Charlie.
However bets are being placed and just before going to print, Sportsbet had the Coalition at $1.08 and the ALP $8 to win government.
"I think the ALP will shorten," says a convulsing Louise.
Nevertheless, the truth is that what will happen tomorrow is a mystery. Although plainly the government has every likelihood of being returned with a reduced majority and a wide-open Senate. And while the end result might not be as unexpected as the British referendum, the underlying trend against giving the establishment full control will be present to some degree.
The Nobel Prize winner in economics, Joseph Stiglitz, made a very important point in 2012 in his book The Price of Inequality when he said that the ''fairness test" is failing badly in the West. He observed that for a good part of the last century the boss earned about 30 times more than the average worker. Now, it's more than 200 times.
And the GFC made matters worse. Stiglitz points out that the top 1 per cent has taken over 90 per cent of the recovery since 2008. 
So what happened in England last weekend was that the ordinary people, who felt disenfranchised from decision making and have had stagnant or falling incomes, acted as if they had nothing to lose. They had become convinced that they didn't matter to the remote power brokers who have never really believed that there is a sting in the tail of social inequality.
Stiglitz has said that capitalism seems to have changed the people who are ensnared by it. He's pointing out that our sense of values collapse when the financial end justifies the means.
Another influential economist, Jeffrey Sachs, pointed out earlier this week that the response to Brexit must be "restore a sense of fairness and opportunity for the disaffected .... those whose livelihoods have been undermined by financial crisis".
I spent three years recently going to London almost every month and I saw it up close. The power people in the centre of London, "the City" as they smugly call it, had obvious reservations about "the Germans" and "the French". They certainly didn't seem to think much of the Greeks or the Spanish. But mostly, they didn't think much of the rest of the UK. 
And more than once, I saw the look on people's faces, "oh you colonials, what would you know?"
So it came as no surprise to me that a majority of people in England saw this referendum as a way of getting their country back. 
Well, sadly for them, it can never be the way they think it used to be. And coming out of Europe is a disaster. But leaders at all levels have to understand that they must properly embrace all people, not just their supporters. In America, it is no surprise that Donald Trump has appeal because he's playing the anti-politics game. Bernie Sanders had such a good run against the Clintons for the same reason.
In Australia this weekend, I suspect we'll see a version of the same phenomenon. Pauline Hanson could well be there plus Derryn Hinch, Jacqui Lambie and others.
Whoever wins this election will make a victory speech with the inevitable line "and I will be Prime Minister for all Australians". 
He better make sure he means it otherwise we'll be back to the polls again and none of us want that.