just angry tody

Listening to ABC radio leads to distress.  Not a good lie-in at all.  Firstly about stolen Aboriginal wages in WA.  Millions stolen, eventual recognition of the problem and a slow process of correcting it, except that the final outcome is a minimal token to the few people who have survived the drawn out recognition of their rights.  The way Aboriginal people were treated is horrific.  It still persists, and worse, many Australians retain the mentality of approval or denial of this horror.  If Tony Abbott thinks Daesh is equivalent to the Jewish Holocaust, then he should look at the continual official treatment of Australia's first nations and the descendants of the long-term owners of this country.

Then came an interview about "drugs".  Portugal legalised all drugs fifteen years ago and since then heroin use has halved, AIDS transmission ceased, all drug use fell, and so forth.  The writer of a new book is speaking in Australia.  The arguments are so persuasive, yet the situation remains in Australia.

No wonder I feel resentment when in the presence of Medicos or Lawyers, the people who should be leading our society but instead are holding it back.  Pace "doctors' wives" the supposed majority component of the "new left" including the Greens and the Socialist Left, whose policies are as extreme, unrealistic and counter-productive as the Right.

I should be posting this publicly, but who listens to me?  I just make enemies, draw attention from undesirables and attract interest from the private, secretive "public" authorities.

I wrote something about public transport, yesterday, that I haven't yet posted to New Whig, that I am thinking of promoting, but my thoughts continue to be about the Nature Strip, and I might write something about that and promote it widely.  If I am to bring about one change in my lifetime, what little is left, then stopping the poisoning of endemic wild-flowers and mowing grasslands, all part of the recognition of Country, will be eternally worthwhile.

Yesterday I felt terrible.  Lunch went really well, but when I returned to Billy's later, I made us canned soup and ended up on his couch, almost asleep and went home early. The problem was partly his choice of programmes.  the Lilly Tomlin sitcom with Riba Macantyer (sp?), Malibu Country, was entertaining to start with, except now it is a total bore, except that the Lilly Tomlin character smokes weed and campaigns for it in the show.  That is good to see.  Marijuana is openly praised on television and normalised into family life in sitcoms.  On the MTV Video Awards show, they did a "3,2,1, Marijuana" cheer and gave their top award to a user and campaigner for drug normalisation.  Today, however, I don't feel too terrible, and will go to the city first for lunch and then tram to St Kilda to see Bad Jews at the new Alex Theatre.

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