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Nicholas Kristof criticises the Trump administration for weakening international cooperation through threats against Iran, the closure of USAID, withdrawal from the World Health Organization, reduced support for Ukraine, trade tariffs and rising public debt. He argues that these policies are increasing inflation and interest rates, complicating economic management in Australia and elsewhere. While Australia's wealthiest 200 people gained $39 billion in the last financial year, the burden of controlling inflation will again fall heavily on mortgage holders and renters.
Nicholas Kristof highlights the damage being done to international accord by the US administration, and the continued worthy work of the United Nations in a sector without anywhere close to the financial advantages offered within private school communities. Any chance that one day we can see an advertisement run for the opportunities, ingenuity, and absolute effort put into our public schools?
Because the other 95 per cent of us ideally need to feel good about what we can afford to buy as well. What goes for dogs also goes for children. I have lost count of the times I’ve been in my local pub/cafe where parents let their children run riot, screaming, yelling, climbing. Can we please ban children from them.
It is likely that many truly original ideas are contained in letters received by the editor but readers do not discover them because they were not printed. They might have been judged to be too offensive, inaccurate or downright wacky to appear. As someone who has written many letters to the editor in more than 50 years, I am often surprised by which letters appear and which do not.
In the latter case, after momentary disappointment I might mutter, ″But that was a good one. It was so original. ″). Whilst not a new idea, downsizing AFL teams to sixteen rather than eighteen players plus interchange as evidenced in historic VFA games, would help overcome many challenges associated with congested play.
I’ve been a basketball court announcer/DJ, and something like Wharfie Time is a gift from the gods. I really feel for whoever pressed go, and sad that we’ll probably never hear it again. It’s a tough gig to get right, to find that balance between letting the game do the talking and getting the fans involved. And I always had the Ted Lasso “Oi Wanker” fans telling me I played too much music.
Or the wrong music. Or at the wrong time. Wharfie Time was genius. Totally original, reflecting the soul and origins of the club, stirring, anthemic, dramatic, someone really nailed it thinking that up.
And the fans loved it. It’s just so hard, and I’ve been there, knowing when to throw the switch. Think of it this way: if they hadn’t played it, Freo most likely still would have lost and every fan, YouTuber, pundit, podcaster and player would have been empurpled demanding to know why the didn’t play it. ″No Wharfie Time Costs Freo the Final” screams the West Australian!
“We were waiting but it never came” players say. Everywhere else, especially basketball, if you banned Walk of Life by Dire Straits, We Are The Champions by Queen, almost every AC/DC song and that god awful Sweet Caroline, the unimaginative dills playing the music would be all out of ideas. It’s a shame when something truly clever and original gets the blame for a loss.
But, being able to play that in a grand final at a neutral venue, well now, that’s a whole other question. I think we have seen the end of Wharfie Time, except that it will probably enter the vernacular as a synonym for a premature celebration.
Taiwan academic Chen Fangyu refers to “the Chinese communists’ enormous propaganda resources and their continuous attempts ... to brainwash the US public” (If Trump is bent on renaming a possibly liberated Hormuz Strait after himself, it will always be known as Trump’s Truth Bypass. I’m in the market for a second-hand light plane. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Some craft spirits and beers would certainly sweeten the deal.
The greedy AFL placed financial gain ahead of fan enjoyment by granting Seven exclusive live coverage of the grand final. Millions of fans used to ad-free coverage during play on streaming services had to endure annoying adverts following every goal.
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