I think I have a Home Affairs Pelican out here in front of me. He’s been cruising my bit of river front here for a few days .. pretends to be catching stuff, fish .. but I dunno. The boys have warned me about Home Affairs chappies wandering about dressed as wild-life. They say a truck hit an Auroch out on the highway a couple nights ago with a couple of public servants in it. And they tell me, Aurochs…
I left with 50 books – picked up a few gems at no cost from Gleebooks the day I left. So, as you can imagine I’m a travelling book store .. problem being that there’s no one out here who reads my sort of rubbish. The Gnomads have created this rule that books MUST be swapped. Must. So I’m likely to have a pile of Donna Hay magazines swapped for my copy of Wheen’s Karl Marx, in fact I’d probably…
I’m wrong of course, as usual. We should all be so extremely grateful to the King and his Merry Men for being able to see their ways to doling out 75 smakaroos, 75 big ones out of their slush funds, to all the poor people of Australia. True, he’s not doling it out to all the poor people in the country but only to the 2nd and 3rd class. It is after all, 75 bucks that could be used in…
Its so hard not to judge other people on your values even when you know you shouldn’t. I suppose thats why we’re always trying to find shared values, not so that when we find them we can judge others, but so that when we’re forced into a position of judgement or when we jump into a judgement, we at least have an understanding of the meaning of those values. Much of my life is spent in being judged by others…
The King’s been out at the Cricket spreading his corruptions … Lord, can’t we just keep him at the Rugby League? I see he’s made us a gift of 40 nurses out of the money him and his men have stolen from us and hoarded away over the previous couple of years. He says that he can afford to do this because we’ve been good and paid our taxes .. because him and his thieves have invested their dosh in…
All the talk about getting kids back into a love and a desire to play Test Cricket … Talk wont do it. What they mean is how do they get the crowds back to the long game? How do you teach kids to build innings or to learn the nous to take wickets when you’re being belted all around the neighbourhood? I hear that today in Junior Cricket – and in Australia, juniors I’m told, don’t play red ball cricket…
Its a hard thing to be caught in the middle of somebody elses lies. To effectively be used as a tool and therefore become – against your will and in spite of your declared wish – complicit in their deceit. How should you take this? Other than abandoning friendships years in the making there is very little one can do in this situation. This petty neo-liberal society wallows in petty deceits and in petty games … It’s like being at…
Do you think that by sending all our refugee children back to imprisonment on our Pacific Island for Christmas is meant to send a message to ‘people smugglers’ ? Just an off hand question Patti K asked on her Suicide Radio programme last night. Didn’t really get an answer. I mean, there were a couple of deep sighs .. though that could have been the wind too. I like Mr Peters take on this ‘letting the kings god look after…
I see that we’re robbing funds from the NDIS for drought relief. Thought Barney the Dunce had all that sorted … Cormann said the NDIS was currently undersubscribed but “if demand was higher in the future, the budget would accommodate that in the same way as we do for all our demand driven programs”. Confusing lot of nonsense as usual. Matty the Mop says it’s no problem. Not as many disabled people as he was told there were, that’s the…