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.

Summer Storm, Australia

 This summer in Victoria-an Australian state where island called Tasmania near touches a continent on small scale big geographic maps- so far looks much cooler than usual. Actually, since 2005 this picture of cooling-down warmest season has been repeated-a far cry from the heat of the nineties famous for apocalyptic visions of predicting the zero-reserve water reservoirs with all technical-economics consequences for “saving Australia” institutions involved. Skies surely do not know of advance carbon tax/price on carbon introduced locally might bring about to save a human world globally.   Well, life is going on pretending not so much happens in the air. 

Cold mornings have been followed by sun-radiated afternoons as a “no news is good news” seems to be a first victim of whatever oncoming inevitably.

When too much is too much

The Netherlands is going to abandon politics of multiculturalism as appeared from media.  

As seen from Australia, multiculturalism itself was an invention used to covering traditional apartheid and segregation in the timing of the locally rising nationalist movements in the middle of the twentieth century to somehow keep formally independent colonies to be lashed with as influx of mostly ex-local-ethnic-elites sought refuge in metropoly.

One could say multiculturalism was never implemented on terms of equal opportunities (and might not be in places, where mateship and networking rule de–facto officially).

The USA, a Land of the Free, was and is surely right speaking of a “melting pot” as a targeted notion reflecting a mere reality of a grass-root acceptance of en masse arrivals pragmatically.