Australia: The Voice Referendum:The Referendum Approaches: As I said, I'm really not sure what The Voice is or means. There's people who make up The Voice, I get that. Who elected them? What do they do? How much do they get paid? Where do they live? How long are they in these positions? Do they get the same superannuation provisions as politicians? Are they politicians? How often do they meet up? Where do they meet up? Normal things you can ask about anyone, yet no answers.

Things Behind The Sun

Melton, Victoria...Local Culture...Dress to Impress. What can you say? It's Culture, its Diversity...its Cheap Wet Pussies at Bar Prices...it's Right Up There...Its Australia in 2023. My god, how we have grown as a Culture, as a Symbol for the World of Diversity, as a People. Time to put on my long black coat and trilby hat, and go nuts... to celebrate the Death of Christ at Easter

 

Here's the True Story of my Casio G Shock Watch. I expect some folk from Melton will be derisive and negative, as is expected, as they don't get out so much, but it is a true story. My wife and daughter and I flew down from Cairns to Melbourne 7 years ago to check out RMIT as daughter wished to do a 3 year degree in Advanced Sound Engineering and Digital Journalism, or something like that. I'd pretty well retired from work, being old. (So, she said YES to the course of studies and we tabulated that it would cost us, as she is a foreign student designation, around $40,000 each year for 3 years..and it did. So, we sold up the Cairns unit and all moved here, and rented, paid for her education, and she went to RMIT and did really well, and I went back to work to help pay for her future.) Her education actually shifted us from the Middle Class in Cairns to the Working Class in Melbourne...less pay, longer hours, everything far more expensive. Our Cairns 3 bedroom apartment with pool and lift and tropical gardens and gated etc, when sold, would buy a small one bedroom unit here. That's Melbourne. Anyway, when we flew down to check out RMIT and Melbourne, I bought a Casio G Shock Watch at Melbourne Airport for about $230. With it I got a 30 page instruction book, and thought, well, I'll just absorb all that. Well, I didn't absorb all that at all. It became an issue when the clocks changed for Day Light Saving and, for the life of me, and studying all the info, I couldn't do it. I took it to 3 watch repairers in Melbourne, and they couldn't change the time back one hour. This is true. In frustration, after finding it after I'd thrown it into the bin, I packed the watch in a small box and posted it to Mr Casio in Japan (Yes, there is a real Mr Casio) with a note saying..."Please, Mr Casio, keep this watch, I don't want it back. I don't want any money. I'd just like you to remember that it's important to design a watch, in future, that makes it easy to adjust the time on the watch, for your future business. I like the watch but I don't want it back." That was that. So, unexpectedly, for me, Mr Casio sent the watch to his Casio Excellence Team in Kyoto and they set the watch on the time it should be for MELBOURNE at that time of year, and then they sent it back to me by secure registered post. Nice people. It came back with a new glass watch face as this had been scratched. I still have it, and twice a year I'm frustrated that no one can change the time on it (except the Kyoto experts). I no longer try watch repairers or experts in Melbourne. Bunch of idiots, I reckon, much like me. I work in mental health in the area of psychology and addiction, and, one time, when interviewing a very dysphoric young man plunging into deep addled drug induced psychosis, I asked "Hey, can you change the time on a Casio watch?" Well, he replied "Yes, I can. Its easy" and he did! Unfortunately we couldn't keep him in the clinic under any health order for very long, so he went home, better than he came in, and my watch-fixer was, alas, lost to me. Eventually, I bought another simpler watch, an analogue Citizen Divers Watch that's quite simple, to use when the Casio can't be adjusted to suit the changes of time. So, that's the real story about my Casio watch, and, as the time changed happened just a few days ago, it is now, once again, this time, keeping the right time again. I love it! Anyway, as it all turned out, with her good RMIT credentials (one of the three Australian Universities that China reckons is actually any good), daughter is a managing executive now of an advertising company in Shanghai, and is zooming off to Scotland soon to do taste testing of Malt Whiskeys to advertise on her Shanghai based TV show. I love her. I'm actually still working with the drug addled and psychotic folk here, at 69, and so there is some angst to the whole story, but, over all, life has been a good story, and, overall the Casio is a good watch to keep.

Australia: Well, we are investing $380 million billion in American submarines, and we'll get one or two with a flag on it, in thirty years time, but they'll stay in the American fleet, controlled by the US Admiralty, so we have to know we'll agree with them about everything in 30 years time, about ....yes...everything. We are getting these weaponised submarines to wage war on China, our best and biggest trading partner. What? Who would do that? We gave $500 million to The Ukraine, the most corrupt and despised country in Europe. 30%, we know, gets eventually to the military war effort, the rest is subsumed by the Ukraine corrupt government and elite, and the weapons/goods sent to bizarre military regimes in Africa 70% of our gift. Poof! Thanks Australia! We have immense homelessness and poor treatment for old folks, a dodgy economy based upon coal, and are falling behind the First World Nations in every way, and we have a very dodgy future...and yet we are so proud to just throw the positive future away. No wonder the Australian Jesus wept! Remember the Dodgy Brothers Car Sales Consultants? They're still in control, and doin' dodgy deals with our money, & our kids futures.