CRYSTAL BALL PREDICTIONS FOR 2025
It’s that time of the year, once again, for me to turn my eye to the crystal ball to see what 2025 has in store for us. While the crystal ball has enormous power, some of the things that it throws up at me can be a bit odd.
First, I see a strange Federal Election campaign with lots of “non-truths” being thrown around and a lot of language that does more to divide us and inflame hate, than it does to unite us and show understanding. The end result of the election journey looks like changing politics in this country.
The second thing I see is a new law. The new law will require that bottles of shampoo and conditioner are only allowed to have one word on the front of the bottle – that word being either “shampoo” or “conditioner”. And it will require the print to be in big letters.
The third things that I see is 2 of Australia’s major sports codes re-badging themselves to more equally recognise the male and female versions of that sport, at the elite level. The A-League will rename itself to the M-League, so as to match the current W-League brand for women’s football. In the same spirit, the NRL for men will rename itself to become known as the NRLM, which will change it to be on equal footing with the title of the NRLW competition for women.
And the fourth and final thing that I see in the crystal ball is the President of the United States apologising to everyone for many things. LOL.
CRYSTAL BALL REVIEW OF 2024
A mixed bag of successes and fails in terms of what the crystal ball had shown me would be happening in 2024, compared to what actually did happen. Keep in mind these silly predictions are made in the January of the year, so it’s a long shot.
As predicted by the crystal ball, the political use of the phrase “laser like focus” was well and truly used to within an inch of its life in 2024; Australia had a hugely successful Olympic Games in 2024, but while the crystal ball predicted we would finish 6th, we in fact finished 4th; 2024 is now recorded as the hottest on record for planet earth; and mayhem did arrive during the U.S. election year.
As far as crystal ball fails go; Elon Musk did not trademark Love Island or buy his own Love Island; Australia did not win Eurovision; and Seinfeld did not have a reunion.