Mood: lyrical
Topic: aust govt
No posting today on Sunday political free to air talkie shows.
We noted last week Insiders and Sunday Business begged off in favour of religious programming on our ABC govt funded channel.
Oakes on 9, Riley on 7 were no show. Meet the Press on 10 ditto. All good we say. Can't speak for the pay tv shows etc or nightly fta fodder 60 Minutes, Sunday Night or Dateline.
We can say the forum on quality journalism (another one) debating the death of newspapers seems to have been confirmed by this weekend edition offering from Fairfax. Newspaper it is not. Lifestyle rag maybe.
The Australian from News Corp seems equally shaky leading with a 'farmers are good, greenies are liars' story while hiding the true news story about triazine herbicides including simazine and atrazine are persistant herbicides found to be more dangerous than ever in cooler Tasmanian climates, that's on page 4 down the bottom too. The story notes they are banned in Europe but not here.
It's back to the packing boxes for us in our relocation project, and notice the change in email contact address which is nowNot that we have any great love for Telstra but the other carriers don't do cable or wireless where we are going, and at least with the gorilla you can be fairly sure they are not owned in the case of Optus by Singtel aka Singapore which does money laundering for the organised crime generals of the Burmese dictatorship.