In years to come our children might ask, “What did you do in the Macklemore War, Dad?” My response will be, “Like a lot of people, I fought and died just a little bit inside.”
The noise around the same sex marriage voluntary postal survey has turned this country into a dismal, joyless place, where proponents and opponents quibble over meaningless symbolism like seagulls over a chip.
I confess I didn’t have the slightest idea who Macklemore was until earlier this week. I would be perfectly happy to bathe in that ignorance today. I might even have watched him perform in the NRL Grand Final pre-match, wondered out loud who he was before going to the fridge and grabbing another beer before the kick off.
By the time the match ended and the premiership trophy was held aloft by the victorious captain, Macklemore’s performance would have been a distant memory, rather like my knowledge of the 2004 coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea in that it was a long time ago and didn’t really make a whole lot of difference to my life.
Full column here.
Political Bombshell, Mr Insider! Australia’s most prominent and successful independent political force, Nick Xenophon, has announced he will quit federal politics to contest a state seat in South Australia’s March election.
http://tinyurl.com/ybsfhvx9
It’s an integrity move from Nick. I don’t always approve of his politics but at a personal level he’s a very decent bloke.
The thing with the promised mining jobs from Adani is they will never eventuate. Its happened before. Remember when we first started losing jobs in the cities, the conservatives all sneering ‘well, go get a job in the mines in WA, remember that? No jobs in WA now, financial disasters happening in families all over the west. Mining is a rape the land, use the people then toss them aside situation. If you are lucky, most of the time they just FIFO who they really want in and screw the locals by raising rents.
10,000 jobs was the original lie, now its down to 1500, that’s will be a lie too.
correct….. BS errywhere….700jobs max and job losses elsewhere… state of origin coal….