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| Shane the Concert-Goer |
G'day Possums,
Mrs Wombat and I were gifted concert tickets for
Richard Tognetti's Australian Chamber Orchestra performance last night.
What a cracking lot of musos.. bouncing around,
working off each other with impeccable timing and making things heard many
times before, alive and refreshing in a programme including....
Olli Mustonen's Nonet No2, a sonorous lyrical
piece repeatedly asking the same
question till dancing to a resolution...
Beethoven's Grosse Fugue, Op.113 just, WOW! Wholly contemporary music
composed in 1825 ....
Shostakovich's Prelude and Scherzo, Op.11 edgily
Soviet constructivist but emotional and
full of drama...
and
P.I.Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence, Op 70
happily transposing Russian folk idiom to a sunnier clime with a cracking
finish.
A glorious night of superbly played music, thank
you, Wombat gels!
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Well that was the sublime... now to our
ridiculous ruling rabble; that mongrel
cabal that a/ : "...couldn't get a root in a brothel", and b/:
"couldn't sell a meat tray in a Pub raffle" which is showing
increasing signs that the "Kangaroos are loose in the top paddock".
Where to start with this hysterically funny (if
it wasn't so serious for the nation) week of own goals, mis-steps and plain
poor administration.
In the week when the very last cars were
manufactured in Australia, the Ruling Rabble who obliterated these thousands of
jobs (when there is one position for every seventeen unemployed) and who might
well have been advised to keep their heads down and look competent for once
doing nothing, decided to announce after 5 years of allegedly being in charge that they
now had what could pass for, in a darkened room, an energy policy.
Tossing aside two years work and the advice of
the Chief Scientist and instead approving the month old new panel of
"experts" who effectively said, Coal is OK, gas is good, Pumped Hydro
(even though twenty years away) is lovely.. and re-newables ..eerrr... well I
suppose we could have sixpence worth of those too, but forget a clean energy
target!
Gushing with pride at their momentous
achievement of a Final Solution, Environment and Energy mal-administrator,
Fictions Frydenberg and Prime Miniature Truffles fanfared their brillance telling all that by 2020 we might save 50cents a day on our electricity bills now that they, in their
heads had the energy market sorted.
Unfortunately it has been announced that banks
are now going to pull funding from renewables as Truffles' "fix"
creates market uncertainty and eventually this will mean higher not lower
prices.
Defending himself against criticisms that the
"...finshed earlier in 2016..." National Broadband Network he
converted from fibre-optic to copper lines between two tin cans was a dud,
Truffles said that in hindsight Labor had made a mistake in even thinking that
Australia needed such a service when carrier pigeons were almost as efficient
and The Ugly American Murdoch was happy his Foxtel cable had less competition.
The Happy-Clapper Pretend
Treasurer who spouts more bullshit than the Werribee sewage farm, Scummo
Morriscum agrees with the productivity commission and thinks that education and
health are fragmented...and to fix them, doctors and teachers should be payed
by their results. Well, well...I wonder who did that fragmentation of these
public systems in the first place and will further privatising them provide a
solution...?? Oh, come in spinner!!
In the Vindictive Stakes (it
is the racing season, after all) two candidates stand out. Michaelia The Harpy,
Cash and Uncle Otto's great nephew, Eric Vichy Abetz.
Both these stables are concerned
that activist filly, "Get-Up" is streets ahead of them in pace and
tactics and wish to handicap this brazen filly, nobbling it's popularity with
the betting public before the odds of them winning their respective saddles become any
longer.
Devising a carnival of their
own The Harpy (whose voice has all the mellifluousness of a thousand Sulphur
Crested Cockatoos at sundown in Summer) and Vichy (who loves uniforms and
thuggery) invited the Australian Federal Police to visit the Australian Workers
Union offices simultaneously in both Sydney and Melbourne to peruse a form
guide as to how much money the AWU bet on Get-Up and also on the opposition
leader and outsider, Willie Shortstuff some 10 or 11 years ago.
Waiting to film the arrival of
AFP stewards to read the form guide were the media. Now, as this carnival was
supposed to be an in-house nobbling, the media being there before the
wallopers sort of gave the game away, particularly as the form guide in
question had already been handed to a Royal Commission years ago and its tote
had added up.
So was this a replay of the
AFP raid on Senator Conroy's (Labor) home for the supposed leaked track tactics
material of the dud NBN back in March or was it a replay of
"Ute-Gate" that got Truffles such a scratching in 2009 when his ride,
Godwin Grech was found to be unsound?
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The track suddenly became heavy when in parliament The Harpy was asked 5 times did she or who in her stable leaked the carnival event to the media. She denied riding that day. Unfortunately one of the media blew "starters' on her by naming a senior jockey in her stable. The Harpy demurred saying she knew as much about that as she did about not putting her fourth new million dollar +house on the parliamentary register.
The senior jockey has been
banned (he was retiring any way... how convenient) but the owner so far, only mildly chagrined and the AFP Stewards: who knows what they think of being such obvious tools for such a rabble?
The Westminster Stakes will
no longer be held in Australia till a new season perhaps, puts better talent and stayers on the track.
Hoo-roo Petals,
Shane.
PS:
The effort to nobble Get-Up has resulted in thousands more joining its fan club
and as many tens of thousands of dollars more in its kitty.
