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Our politicians and our mainstream media are equally to blame for Australia’s 2019 Federal Election campaign having become a seemingly-endless avalanche of inanity, predictability, pork-barreling, propaganda, evasion and irrelevance.
However, letter-writer Ian Bevan of Landsdale, WA, has at last voiced the burning question…
(as published in The West Australian on Friday May 3, and quoted in full, below)
Comments closed“My” local daily paper – The West Australian – has recently become relentlessly parochial and adopted inane journalese as its house style.
Its headlines especially grate: almost all are prime examples of what smug dullards consider “clever”, of what twits mistake for wit.
The West‘s editor may or may not be a bona fide idiot; perhaps he is just a bright young lickspittle, fulfilling a brief to “dumb everything down, cut every cost and cross-promote the linked TV station, endlessly”.
So, it was a particular joy/relief to encounter some actual journalistic flair…
Comments closedWhat will happen is the system will crash faster than we realise. Yes, it will reassemble and there will be forests, but they won’t look anything like what we have now. We are going to see this transformation before our eyes…
Comments closedArguably – metaphorically – when it is Australia’s Murray-Darling, as recently described:
the canary, and the coalmine, for the world when it comes to water stress.
Comments closedAccording to an alarming recent article in the Australian edition of The Guardian, Australia is “losing the fight” against invasive species.
It quotes scientists who claim that the “invaders” pose a greater threat to Australia’s native species than does climate change.
(so, you may ask, “why on earth does the image atop this Pelican Yoga post depict an Australian native species which is clearly flourishing?”)
Comments closedThis is a wee postscript to previous post.
Nancy Eisenberg’s White Trash has many telling direct quotes.
My favourite is a remark made by Lyndon Johnson when he encountered a group of “homely” women holding up racist signs in Tennessee:
Comments closed…reading Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash (subtitled The 400-year untold history of class in America) will likely give you a whole new perspective on Trump & Trumpism.
(this post’s featured image depicts an absolutely “legitimate” bit of campaigning by an absolutely real Wanker. She was re-elected; all is revealed at this post’s end)
One Comment…at the heart of the theory that privatisation will provide better services at lower costs is the absurd assumption that the vulnerable can stand up for themselves.
One CommentYou are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both.
2 CommentsThree recent essays (one, delivered as a speech to The National Press Club) – each, very different – are provocative, but nuanced.
Richard Flanagan’s, Stan Grant’s and Don Watson’s words are worth reading, in full.
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