This is the second part of a dispatch originally published on 8 November 2010. (Google Translate may help if it look Greek to you)
On 19th.October the Australian (that paragon of freedom of the press) published an article headed “Not all happy about new asylum-seeker neighbours”.
West Australian Premier Colin Barnett is quoted as follows:
“….Fifteen hundred single men in detention (in Northam) is a potentially dangerous situation,” he said.”We would wish to be reassured by the commonwealth that people will not be able to escape or leave this facility. “We are talking about single men, some of them quite desperate, some of them their backgrounds, their inclinations, their potential to behave violently is simply not known.”….”
He didn’t mention the possibility that they may also be number plate thieves.
Heaven forbid I should label Mr. Barnett a xenophobe.
I’m not racist, some of my best friends are Nepalese.
The little boy laughed to see such fun.
In a previous Dispatch I referred to acronyms in the Co-ordinator General’s Report.
LSP= Location Supported Playgroup (What?)
A dispatch reader has been kind enough to send me this:
Part 2, page 9:
“Parents, carers and children participated in different programs which engaged parents and carers with their children. This included preparation of nutritious meals they could then replicate in their own homes. Children took part with their parents, promoting healthy eating amongst them as well as their parents. Participants also designed and created their own personalized ‘Yuendumu Playgroup’ t-shirts with Aboriginal art forms, using traditional Aboriginal symbols and incorporating them in the design. The children wear these t-shirt around the community further promoting the service.
Participants also engaged in bead making with their children which included traditional painting methods.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLY7yI1xV-M
On 4th.April 1968 Robert Kennedy was scheduled to make a campaign speech in Indianapolis, when he heard that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. He then discarded the speech that had been written for him. He ignored warnings of potential violence and announced the assassination to a predominantly black crowd, most of whom had not heard the news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyCWV_N0EsM
In his impromptu speech, Kennedy quoted his favourite poet, the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
That an elite college educated white man should quote an ancient Greek poet to a crowd of black ghetto(?) dwellers has been remarked and puzzled over ever since. Some have labeled it bizarre.
There were riots in 76 major U.S. cities. Indianapolis remained calm.
Nothing bizarre about not patronizing people. In my opinion an LSP (“programs which engaged parents and carers with their children” and in which “Participants also engaged in bead making with their children”) is far more bizarre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVNiKBOEZfU
Μια ανταμοιβή για την επιμονή. Μερικά ωραία μουσική
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DBl5gAs6WI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODbWfkWjoc
Αντίο, μέχρι την επόμενη φορά.
Frank