tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693742778563780070.post2125761045363717411..comments2023-07-28T01:11:06.534+10:00Comments on Only the Depth Varies: Mud WrestlingSal Pirachahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12020333218958938969noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693742778563780070.post-78689574793843924822012-01-14T00:25:01.089+10:002012-01-14T00:25:01.089+10:00Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciat...Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it, even though I don't agree. Please keep reading. :)Sal Pirachahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12020333218958938969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693742778563780070.post-872730566946181612012-01-13T22:51:42.736+10:002012-01-13T22:51:42.736+10:00You're probably not going to want to hear this...You're probably not going to want to hear this but Anna's famous every hour on the hour TV updates surrounded by head nodding cronies like the Police commissioner, the head of the SES, the Minister and a signer to convey the message to those who must have up until Anna's heroic takeover of TV not ever got a word from the contraption, was a publicity stunt of epic proportions that actually went wrong in very short order after flood waters subsided and the community began to realise that it was the government itself that made a major contribution to the levels of the flooding and increased the number of homes affected and the level of innundation by a huge amount.<br /><br />Worse, a couple of months after the cleanup was done in many cases at bargain basement prices by free willing workers saving greedy insurance companies millions, and the government as well millions more, the rest of the world was still wondering if any of Queensland was left on the continent of Australia. Many seeing Anna's heroic TV appearances assuming our state was washed out to sea of smashed beyond repair, and tourists just stopped coming, so was the panic raised by Bligh's electioneering TV stunt.<br /><br />As an advertising writer, I could see how her spin department would have not been able to resist the opportunity, but while she was imploring those in the North to stay safe as a cyclone swept toward shore, to those people most not having power or TV reception to even see, let alone place their deaf relative in front of so they could watch the signer and understand they were in danger.<br /><br />Unfortunately the rest of the world got her message, and tourism has been almost killed off as a result.<br /><br />Interestingly, Bligh still has a very large sum left from the previous Cyclone 5or6 years before, and many of the people affected in that one still haven't been paid the money that generous people donated for their assistance, and we're seeing that duplicated with last years collection money being held back still.<br /><br />Was Anna the hero she proclaimed herself to be? No she took the opportunity to parade and scaremonger and get probably what has been the most free election campaign in our nation's history, at probably the highest cost too.Anonymous for fear of retribution.noreply@blogger.com