I've been trying to put my views on climate change and the Australian Government into 2 brief paragraphs, and I think I've done it, and it is a considered view: 1: Australia is the second highest polluter in the world, per capita, but, at the same time, there aren't many people here, and we really wouldn't be missed if we disappeared completely. We are not world leaders or a good example for anyone, anywhere. We never have been, & never will be. At 25 million, we are smaller in culture, history, meaning and impact than one decent Asian City. Still, climate change due to pollution is true so we should do our share to reduce these emissions in league with other countries rather than try to lie and cheat and tweak the numbers etc. 2: Accepting that pollution is causing a lot of climate change, the Government needs to invest huge amounts into making the transition to a Much Hotter World much better and safer for folk in this country. It should have been doing this for decades. It has failed us. It continues to fail us, its own people, and indeed, in our small part to play, and, yes, it is a small part, it is failing the greater world itself.

I think the Australian Political realm is like this: the Current Government is very anti-the notion of climate change, not because they don't think it is happening, but because they think it is mostly happening elsewhere, so, it's not important...what is important is running an effective Conservative government based on the usual principles...smaller government, less tax for the wealthy, help your mates, discriminate against the poor, and let the market fix everything while we all go on holidays, because we are great, but can't actually believe, or agree, even between each other, in the general notion of being a responsible...government. I think that's it in a nut shell. the fires will test them, I guess, but the real test is upon the majority of the buffoons who elected such buffoons because they believed in marketing spin rather in boring capacity and responsibility in governance.

One of the problems with using the Australian Military to save folk by ship is that they didn't have any life-vests for children, so the kids had to be saved... a bit later....after they found some appropriate gear. The Australian Defence Forces are far better equipped to drop white phosphorous bombs across the middle east on small towns than it is well equipped to help little folk of their own. The issue of using boats to save refugees of the Mallacoota fire also brings into irony the Prime Minister's proud claim to fame...of stopping refugee boats from coming to Australia for safety. "Go back to where you came from" as Australian International Policy, has a distinct irony in these hot unrelenting days. "Be careful, Some of those children, and the women, may carry terrorist fire with them..."

Violence and Women: as an Australian man, I have struck a woman once, when I was 28, my first wife, a slap across the face, in an Italian Restaurant in Brookvale, just after she struck me, with a slap across the face. As I recall it had something to do with sex. I expect neither she nor I have made any apologies about that moment, and neither of us are likely to. I grew up in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney during the 50s 60s and 70s and 80s and have never had any problem with gender etc, many of my friends being transexual, which is why my wife slapped me, anyway...never had any problems with folk being gay, I did that for a few years, and never had any problem with people of different races or cultures etc. I don't know what it is that fucked up Australia, but I remain pretty convinced that I just lived in that good yet poor time as a reasonable contributor to society before people and governments screwed anyone to the wall for being who they were based on some political agenda. The problem with gender sex disablement etc is not a historical problem, it basically started when Australians kept electing dickhead conservative governments. that's the depth of the problem, and if we elected someone else, then there would be no problem. There's no problem with Australia, really, apart from the cunts we continually elect, even now...and we know they are antediluvian cunts and still elect them. If there is something wrong with Australia, for fuck's sake, I didn't enlist to kill children in Vietnam or Afghanistan etc...it isn't me. I just chose to be respectful.

'Food, clothing, housing, electricity, water, education, protection, work, entertainment, ecological health, art, communication, reason, transport, support, enablement...this is not socialism. This is simply good basic human government.'

Wishing you and your family a happy and holy Christmas time. ........... We went for a walk around the suburb today, Craigieburn Christmas Eve, noticing what our neighbourhood cohort had done to somewhat personalise the small houses here. Well done to some. All are pretty well new small houses, 2 or 3 or 4 bedroom, most are owned, some rented. Small yards at the back. Big dry parks here and there, and good bike paths. We eventually accidentally arrived at one of the shopping centres and wandered through. I had a look in jb-hifi and sought out the DVD of Alien, with Sigourney Weaver, and found a box set of 6 Alien films including Prometheus and Covenant for less than $30, so snapped them up, then realising we long ago got rid of our thousands of dvds and any dvd player, so we went to Target or Big W and bought an all regions dvd player for $35, then Mrs Fitz chose the Game of Thrones dvd set as we have never seen that series, but know it to be very good. I read that big video streaming services and cable channels find the classic movies everyone likes and then 'vaults' them away on occasion, to inspire folk to either pay more or to watch something else...to create scarceness, and I don't like that idea of marketing-cunt-capitalism at all, so, owning the actual DVD discs, and at a cheap price, and looking after them, seems a better choice for those really good or loved movies or series etc one really likes and can just watch in perpetuity off line as one wishes. Lovely day, walking about, hand in hand. Kind regards and Merry Christmas from Mrs and Mr Fitz wandering on the park pathway around the town on a sunny Christmas Eve.

A LUCKY Lucky Cat indeed! A couple of months back I put our big Lucky Waving Cat, Mr Xi Jinping, out on the front door porch only then to begin a vicious war with the local crows who kept pecking at it until they had pulled out its waving arm and flown off with it. On our walk today Mrs Fitz and I came upon a bunch of odd items in the grass, as if they had tumbled from a birds nest in the wind, about 50 metres from home, including the stolen arm. I had kept the one armed Mr Xi Cat hoping maybe to one day find a barbie doll leg to replace the waving arm, just to be creepy...thinking a Lucky Cat waving a skinny leg in a Barbie Nazi salute would be an interesting garden ornament... BUT NOW the waving arm is back on Mr Xi. He'll be back on the stoop tomorrow, Christmas Morn, waving up a storm that says 'Yo, crows! I'm back!'