What’s Happening in Australia?

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When I travel overseas, what I find lacking in the social circles and the nerve centres of our planet is any news from Australia. so I have decided it’s high time that appalling statistic was addressed. Several weeks ago, the news had just filtered through that Farah Fawcett and Ed (here’s Johnny) McMahon had passed away. That’s sad. I liked both of them, for quite different reasons obviously, but Farah was two years younger than me, so that makes her passing all the more tragic. Mercifully, the media might give some attention to them instead of the never-ending saga going on in Canberra with Malcolm Turnbull and some weird story about a fake email. I like Malcolm Turnbull. I’d never vote for him; he joined the wrong party. But he does have a certain presidential flair about him. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I get fake emails everyday, mostly from enterprising fakers in Nigeria and Botswana offering me millions to give them access to my bank account. Dickheads!

Then, shortly after, the radio began reporting that Michael Jackson had died. Really? I’m shocked but deep down not all that surprised. I guessed the television would be full of it by nightfall.

It’s two hours later…have the media gone into meltdown over Michael Jackson or what? Is it me? I never liked his music and I thought some of his antics were bizarre, but if the media blitz is any indication, the entire world except me, wants a 24hour wall to wall Jackfest. I mean it’s not as if it was Princess Diana or Pope John Paul , is it?

I was just happy when the day came to and end and I could go home, put my feet up and watch Jim Lehrer, on the News Hour. It was my birthday, but tomorrow will be better. It’ll be Saturday.

The following week it was school holidays, and you would think the television people would be dragging out the kids’ movies and so on, and offering all sorts of ‘you beaut’ competitions and stuff, but they are still going on about that Jackson fellow. God, I wish someone else would die so we could have a rest from it all. Mind you, the way they were trying to create a state of panic over the emergence of the swine flu pandemic, everyday reporting how many had it, how many were going to get it, what to do if you did get it, how to avoid getting it, blah, blah, blah, perhaps the king of pop’s death was timely.

I’ll leave off now; I don’t want to burden you………to be continued.