I don't wanna go on FB this morning.
There was an appeal yesterday for the Tamil refugee family that was dragged out of their FNQ town two and a half years ago. The conservatives have been trying to send them all back to anti-Tamil Sri Lanka for the last couple of years on the basis that it's 'safe' according to the government, never mind the emotional/psychological trauma the parents experienced in Sri Lanka, which caused them to want to immigrate, nor the fact that the two little girls were born here. They've been incarcerated in what's basically a refugee prison camp for the last year, and all the attempts to get them back to their town have fallen on deaf ears.
I haven't looked to see how it went. I just don't want the news to be so bloody unfair everywhere right now.
( a rant of the unfair )
*sigh*
In happier news, I got the things done in Canberra that needed doing, worked out the things that needed to be done next, and drove back home without incident. I even managed to pick up some stuff that I was thinking I'd have to go out of my way to get, and I did it while getting dinner.
On the way there, I listened to Pantsuit Politics, With All Due Respect, Nuance Nation, Pod Save America, Pod Save The World, and Exploring My Strange Bible (on Hebrews). I have to find an Australian political podcast that does the Pantsuit Politics thing - two women, either side of the tracks, talking about Australian policy with more nuance and explanation. I know Annabelle Crabb and Leigh Sales do one, but the ones I listened to didn't quite hit my buttons.
B1 is still fighting her cold/chest infection - I am working on her to take a cough medicine at night so she gets a full night's rest: I swear I heard her coughing in the background of my dreams last night.
Hainan Chicken is a lot closer to her old self, but her antibiotics end today so we'll keep an eye out. I don't think we'll be getting new chickens anytime soon (the breeder we were thinking of getting them from is scaling back to spend more time with her family, and I'm not sure she's breeding the kinds I was asking about right now), which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Okay, more work to do. I was going to take today off but...changed my mind on it.
There was an appeal yesterday for the Tamil refugee family that was dragged out of their FNQ town two and a half years ago. The conservatives have been trying to send them all back to anti-Tamil Sri Lanka for the last couple of years on the basis that it's 'safe' according to the government, never mind the emotional/psychological trauma the parents experienced in Sri Lanka, which caused them to want to immigrate, nor the fact that the two little girls were born here. They've been incarcerated in what's basically a refugee prison camp for the last year, and all the attempts to get them back to their town have fallen on deaf ears.
I haven't looked to see how it went. I just don't want the news to be so bloody unfair everywhere right now.
( a rant of the unfair )
*sigh*
In happier news, I got the things done in Canberra that needed doing, worked out the things that needed to be done next, and drove back home without incident. I even managed to pick up some stuff that I was thinking I'd have to go out of my way to get, and I did it while getting dinner.
On the way there, I listened to Pantsuit Politics, With All Due Respect, Nuance Nation, Pod Save America, Pod Save The World, and Exploring My Strange Bible (on Hebrews). I have to find an Australian political podcast that does the Pantsuit Politics thing - two women, either side of the tracks, talking about Australian policy with more nuance and explanation. I know Annabelle Crabb and Leigh Sales do one, but the ones I listened to didn't quite hit my buttons.
B1 is still fighting her cold/chest infection - I am working on her to take a cough medicine at night so she gets a full night's rest: I swear I heard her coughing in the background of my dreams last night.
Hainan Chicken is a lot closer to her old self, but her antibiotics end today so we'll keep an eye out. I don't think we'll be getting new chickens anytime soon (the breeder we were thinking of getting them from is scaling back to spend more time with her family, and I'm not sure she's breeding the kinds I was asking about right now), which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Okay, more work to do. I was going to take today off but...changed my mind on it.