G'day Petals,
it's Spring...
and here are three very recent ballet shots to celebrate it... psst... advertising for a Summer School Intensive at Ballet Theatre Australia in January 2013.
see details on their web site.
Well, there's the nice stuff done..
now on to the Slash and Burn of
Politics
Slash and burn, slash and burn.
It seems the only thing political conservatives do well is
destroy.
Presently, Australia’s public education, public health
services are being slashed by State governments in Victoria (the Tardis State)
NSW and Queensland, intent, they say, on “balancing the books”.
A few commentators have said that this is a dress
rehearsal for Tony “rabbit” Abbott and his ideological rabble when they come to
power; which is probably true except that the states are allowing him the
opportunity to slash much further and deeper into social spending than we will
ever have seen before.
And although Abbott’s been “outed” again; this time by David Marr’s
Quarterly Essay http://www.themonthly.com.au/david-marr
as a brutish and misogynist student activist who seemingly believed in nothing
but power for its own sake and though, on one hand, it is nice to know that some things never change, on the other, will it have any meaning in the electorate?
Historians have said that new wars are started by old men
for old past causes and hatreds. Mr Rabbit seems to adhere to that point by
carrying on like an unreconstructed 1950’s DLP’er (I know 50’s is currently
retro fashion but Bob Santamaria still as a hero ? Good grief)!
Which at least takes some attention away from the
flip-flopping that the Federal Govt. is doing again, now over the big re-named marine
vacuum cleaner from Holland.
At least here in the Tardis State, (where
all goes backwards), “Big Bird”, Baillieu (genus:Silvertail
Incompetens) has done something positive:
He’s changed the slogan on the state’s vehicle
registration plates!
WOW!!!
That almost rates with his environmental efforts in
changing the bulbs in the traffic lights.
Psst,….let’s
not talk about the $350,000,000 taken out of Technical and Further Education
and the subsequent loss of thousands of jobs and the closure of courses
seriously affecting regional economies; that TAFEs are now talking of selling
campuses to make ends meet. Or the predictably organised Union bashing (though,
the CFMEU are their own worst enemies) or the planning disasters or the
teacher/nurse bashing or the reduction of the solar power tariff or the
increase in the crime rate or the threat of legal action by the gambling
companies for loss of revenue, (another Kennett deal gone pear-shaped? As with
public transport, water, electricity and education?) Or the fact that FOI
requests are late in four out of five instances and take three times longer to
process than is required or that National Parks are being turned into private
resorts or just read this
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/baillieu-accused-of-paying-fat-cats-while-sacking-workers.html
This, is a competent Government?
Aus’s biggest, wealthiest and loquacious miner, Gina R.,
(whose business life started out with $25,000,000 float) has commented approvingly
of African workers being paid $2.00 a day and sees this as a possible model for
Australian wages.
She also finger-waggingly opined to other mine owners that
if Australians wanted more money they should stop drinking, smoking,
fornicating, going to the footy and eating pies, picking their noses, going out
on Saturday night, wearing clothes, eating and should just find a better job
and work harder.
Geez Gina, how perceptive and socially relevant you are
for the C21st!
Sorting your own family problems out before tackling the
countries (as you see it) might be more valuable and productive for you.
How feudal is her attitude, petals?
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