The Way Ahead

Shane In the Red Centre

G'day Possums,

the last brief post for 2018.

Mrs Wombat, self and No: 2 daughter + b/f travelled up to Alice Springs to congratulate No 1 daughter and partner on the arrival of their first child.

We house-sat, Cloe the Labrador-x a charmingly boisterous 12 month old pup, took in some of the sights, visited galleries, enjoyed the meat and service from Milner St Meats, re-discovered Mateuse Rose' and decided that The Tropic of Capricorn and points further north hardly qualify as habitable places for civilized beings.

We heard many complaints from shop owners and managers about Truffle's third-rate NBN, experienced being vetted when buying alcohol and also when granted admission to venues based on skin colour alone.

 

Iconic Red Centre Tree.

Started the trip at Melb airport standing near Rolex Robert's, Deep North Ruling Rabble rorter, happy-clapper, right-wing apparatchik and electoral manipulator whose bland indifference to the masses swirling about him only seemed to confirm  he's in it for what he can get out of it. 
And to justify that last comment..... " MP Stuart Robert Expenses 2018 Jan-Sept=$377,904.27 Not including Oct-Dec, Also not including Salary. #auspol 2017 Expenses: $559,130.68 Not including Salary By end 2018, This MP will have cost us over $1Mil expenses in 2 years with NIL NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT.".... where's the tumbril? 

 

But is it Art?

Which was different to the return flight from Adelaide to Melb where Michaelia The Harpy, Cash fouled the cabin atmosphere and presented a very different persona to the manic one she most often exhibits in parliament. 

At the luggage carousel as solitary as the very plain teenage wallflower at her first dance The Harpy was allowed a clear few metres of space by the public who stood cheek by jowl retrieving their own baggage. Perhaps it was the lack of whiteboard which made her look as lost and a little nervous or it might have been the anticipation of a ribald question about "Sugar-Daddies", Barnyard overdoing the family issues, Potato-Head Dutton's ludicrous spread in the deep north's Ugly American's Murdoch version of Völkischer Beobachter as Potato Head shat all over Truffles to prove what fine political instincts HE has! Or perhaps it was our useless G-G not being able to budget successfully like the mythical good upstanding fiscal conservative. Whatever it was, the black Patent Leather stiletto jack-boots with bling on the toes did nothing to ameliorate the image.  

 

Space

Ah well, we'll probably be rid of both of these impediments to a thriving country by next May.....hopefully earlier..... but there are so many of them and then there's the lieutenants like the beady-eyed Roskam of The Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe and the idiot propagandists like Bolt-the-Dolt who make the idea of Soviet style re-education camps seem a tolerably good idea.

 

Emily Gap

Hoo-roo Petals,

there's much work ahead in 2019.

Shane.

Ormiston Gorge