Friday, June 28, 2013

Marking time.

Winter, or rather the cool weather that we have which passes for winter, is my least favourite season. No looking forward to hot chocolate, cold walks or tumbles in the snow in this household. Instead you will find me grumbling and snuffling under heated throw rugs.
Adding to this sense of melancholy is the news that we have had a spill in leadership in the Labor party and our first woman prime minister has been dumped in favour of a former leader who it is hoped will lead us to victory in the coming election. There is an abiding sense in Australia that she has led us into an abyss of debt and has ruined the country, this despite a triple A rating from international credit agencies and an economy that is the envy of the world...what do we have to do? It would enlighten some of her critics if they looked farther afield to see what real poverty, instability and debt looks like but alas the conservative mind very seldom looks farther than its own wellbeing.
Sorry about the rant but the vitriol directed at Julia Gillard by her critics, the personal attacks (many disappointingly by women) and the ongoing campaign by the largely Murdoch controlled press to return us to a conservative government has been disappointing to say the least.
Back to my other passion...etegami!
Looking at these huge luscious California strawberries I bought yesterday it occurred to me that the Beatles were prescient, we do have strawberry fields forever! It is strawberry season somewhere in the world at any given time and they are only an aeroplane flight away...this may not be a good thing but it is a real manifestation of that much used seventies term the Global Village.


8 comments:

  1. Yes, the utter disappointment that women are still not allowed to be seen as successful! What an amazing women JG is - so calm under fire, so graceful in defeat, such a wit on the parliamentary floor. A great example crushed by mediocrity and ego alas.
    Ah but your strawberries cheer. I can taste their perfume!

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    1. Yes, pretty much a black armband day for thinking women.

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  2. Hi, Origame, thank u for wonderful post, you're brave enough to tell the truth! Politics is ugly and dirty (I wrote so and sent that cartoon to friends first and decided to upload it). It was a sad day... BTW, it's been dreadfully raining and not good for watercolour. Your work is lovely. Take care not to catch a cold.
    Best wishes, Sadami

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  3. Thank you Sadami, I still believe that the basic motivation of the members of the Labor party is to treat the disadvantaged with compassion and that is what I hold on to.

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    1. Dear Oregame, I understand your say well. If you do not mind, could you have a look of here? http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/
      A preofessor taught us.
      Best wishes, Sadami

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    2. Thanks Sadami, a very interesting site, I hope the education reforms support this work for the future.

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  4. I can't add much to the perfection of Blorgie's comment, except to say, let's not lose hope and let's keep on keeping on. Solidarity!

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  5. Yes, 'not happy'... I know the circumstances in which she became PM were less than ideal, but does that in any way excuse this idiocy??? I note in passing that both Kim Beazley and Kevin Rudd shed a tear when they were deposed, but not Julia! So much for gender stereotypes. Your strawbery has made me salivate. A bright note mid-winter.

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