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