What a contrast in the way Joanne Lees holds her emotions in check while in public compared to the outbreaks of competitive grieving in Australia on the deaths of Steve Irwin and Peter Brock ( why do so many Australians worship mediocrity? ) and isn't it strange how they can get things so wrong. Yes I know that newspapers have to sell more and more so they are not shy about making things up but the suggestion that Joanne was responsible for killing Peter Falconio is on a par with the belief of so many thousands of Australians that Lindy Chamberlain killed her baby Azaria. The people got it wrong and the Courts got it wrong twice. Azaria was not killed by Lindy Chamberlain or a dingo; the evidence irrefutably points to Azaria being taken and killed by a pet dog belonging to one of the local inhabitants. Azarias bloodstained baby jacket was found near Ayers Rock several hundred yards away from the tent she was sleeping in. It was put there by the owner of the murdering dog after he or she found it outside their back door. People do very strange things to protect their pets.
Almost every night on Australian television there are scenes of men, women and children crying, usually at a funeral resulting from a car crash; the tears are accompanied by maudling poems and/or pop songs. Everyone imagines that Australians are happy go lucky jokers who would not be seen crying in public but for the past forty years there has been massive immigration from southern europe where competitive grieving is an art form and it is now unusual to get a weekly local newspaper without a picture of someone blubbing about something in Africa or the Lebanon. Incidentally, and not a lot of people know this, in the 1970s Australia abandoned imperial measures when the government imposed the metric system because the migrants from southern europe could not cope with feet and inches. Talk about pandering; and the various governments have been pandering ever since. In fact the government treats migrants and refugees better than the Aussies who live in the bush. Alice would feel at home here.
Vai Tibi
Almost every night on Australian television there are scenes of men, women and children crying, usually at a funeral resulting from a car crash; the tears are accompanied by maudling poems and/or pop songs. Everyone imagines that Australians are happy go lucky jokers who would not be seen crying in public but for the past forty years there has been massive immigration from southern europe where competitive grieving is an art form and it is now unusual to get a weekly local newspaper without a picture of someone blubbing about something in Africa or the Lebanon. Incidentally, and not a lot of people know this, in the 1970s Australia abandoned imperial measures when the government imposed the metric system because the migrants from southern europe could not cope with feet and inches. Talk about pandering; and the various governments have been pandering ever since. In fact the government treats migrants and refugees better than the Aussies who live in the bush. Alice would feel at home here.
Vai Tibi
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