Thursday, June 13, 2013


The Queen’s Birthday Notes

 

It’s unclear to what extent recent Victorian winter of Australia-grabbed-with-global-warming (at least, as locally-asserted) resembles a mother-country’s summer time of the Europe of the Little Ice Age, of which timing this holiday was quite sustainably established. Sunshine and blue skies meet golden leaves covering a soil so splendidly that European early autumn-touched forests and parks have sharply been associated by the acquiring with a luxury of the Northern Hemisphere’s natural beauty somehow surviving the conquest of a civilization unstoppable.    

This year, this pastoral landscape is marked with the early-spring elections federal oncoming. Could one correct a suggestion that traditionally estimating a local environment as a top world sanctuary while the rest of the Universe presents strange abnormalities mostly (for instance, one could understand, that produced in the Netherlands, a JanoskiansThe Australian Boy Band’s clip reflects such approach to others law and order) well-grounds an electorate’s relaxed attitude toward the election campaign if even certain US-style elements blossom at the dawn of the third millennium in this part of the British Commonwealth persistently.

While some opportunities are existing in a post-recent-mineral-export-boom country locally and a traditional scarcity of jobs for, especially, professionals from, call it, overseas-qualified background, is at a sky level steadily, revelations of trading the works to lure into local education as an entry-stage to a permanent residency (PR) in Australia might be seen as a logical fortitude of this season of exhibiting. The expert forecasts for a future economics’ renaissance are as much various and short-time actual as a challenging weather in Melbourne, some days sliding from heat to cool, calmly to windy, sun-shining to raining every quota of an hour, remaining in general, still colder than in Sahara but a bit warmer than on Arctic Ocean shores. Integrated, nothing points at the returning of lucky Australia true-blue-Aussies-enjoyed-a-time-life-permanent-full-time-employment-in but further adjustments along non-industrial lines. Well, also more and more catering for e-subscribers only, mediastill educates. Maybe, it does unwittingly sometimes as these days a tremendous story of a recidivist-on-parole having murdered his next object-of-passion happened to be a Melbournian journalist with an Irish passport and overseas-based frequent-travelling-capable close relatives. Surely, a stranger’s observation aired during his in-train cell-phone conversation “We live in a society where animals enjoy more rights than humans” is better gauged by even those acquainted personally with a factotum legal after the Court’s disclosure of case details.

Thus, using a public transport is bestowed on with a life-broadening advantage of getting informed miraculously by reading means handy and/or simply listening passively.  

Public transport is a hot topic in situ undisputedly. And this Queen’s Birthday long weekend, apart from student exams, was sufficiently used to modernizing and repairing of train and tram systems, substantially disrupting both  car traffic and daily plans, the replacements uncooperative phenomenally, which was so exceptionally-different from a customer’s previous local experience with similar events. 

Heavy raining started afterwards.