I've just been reminded that it's been a week since my last post. And what a week it's been. We could be suffering the least interesting election campaign ever. Neither side is offering a real vision for the future of Australia and I'm absolutely fed up with the personality attacks from both sides.
I'm watching ABC 24 and there's a news story running across the bottom of the screen:
'Chinese zoo under fire for disguising hairy dog as a lion.'
It just shows that some people will believe anything. (If you're paying attention you might see the relevance of that anecdote to our election campaign.)
By the way, I'm working at a polling booth on September 7th so I'll be at the heart of it for a few hours.
We watched an interesting movie the other night. The Last Station is the story of the last days of Leo Tolstoy. I had no idea that his beliefs sparked the birth of a movement of people who espoused vegetarianism, chastity and passive resistance to a tyrannical government. Even Gandhi was influenced by this movement. Christopher Plummer played Tolstoy and Helen Mirren was his much younger wife, Sophia. Great stuff!
I can hear the garbage truck coming up the street. When I was out earlier, all the bins were lined up at the kerb. Apparently, there's been an announcement that, if the bins are overfull, they won't be collected. Last week, the recycling bins were out as well and about one in five wasn't collected. So what happens now? These householders are going to have to get rid of all that rubbish before the next collection in a fortnight and more stuff is starting to pile up.
Well, as you'd expect every park bin is full, every unlocked jumbo bin has been loaded up and a few bags have started to appear under trees in quiet streets. We're being swamped in rubbish!
Why not take a leaf out of Tolstoy's book and conduct passive resistance against a tyrannical local government???
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