10 Dec 2019

I’ve been watching a motorized scooter helmet migrate around the neighbourhood for the last few weeks. It started out in the neighbour’s yard, moved to a spot behind another neighbour’s rubbish bins, and now exists in the liminal space beside the trainline that the public can’t access.

My guess is that it will stay there until the next round of track work, or somebody needs it bad enough to jump the high fence and recover it.

The days are long and hot here in Australia. Two states are basically on fire courtesy of the Summer bushfires. Our government has largely shirked the issue, as treating bushfires like this as serious seems to suggest that they may be wrong on issues of climate change.

I keep thinking of a quote from a recent news article over on the ABC:

“If anything, this Government is more ideologically driven than Abbott. They want to win the culture wars they see in education, in the public service, in all of our institutions, and they’ll come for the ABC too, of course. There will be a big cleanout at the top of the public service, but Morrison will wait for a while to do that. They believe the Left has been winning the war for the last 20 years and are determined to turn the tables. Morrison will just be craftier about the way he goes about it.”

Sourced from: Inside the Public Service Shakeup, Laura Tingle, ABC.net.au

As someone who, frankly, wishes the culture wars of the last twenty years had seen more gains for the opposite side, it’s a timely reminder that you no can no longer get the kind of government (or world) you want merely by voting for it and hoping other people will do the work.