The reaction from the left to the Australian election is following the well-worn script set down by Trump and Brexit: denial, anger, threats to flee to a nearby country (you’re welcome, New Zealand), and, of course, pouring scorn and abuse on anyone who voted differently to their superiors in the wealthy inner cities.

Labor were well and truly pasted in Queensland, winning just five of 30 seats. Naturally, the Banana Benders have come in for an extra-special, heapin’ helping of vitriol.

Well, Australian readers have a thing or two to tell their insufferable city cousins in the south. Quote.

To those who after the federal election have spat the dummy and are calling people from regional Queensland “knuckle-dragging cavemen”, I would like to point out a few facts. First, the money that comes from mining and agriculture in Queensland keeps your hospitals running, your schools well equipped and your government or government-sponsored jobs well paid.

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Our media are running stories about rising sea levels in the Pacific.  Here is today’s offering.

It is about Vanuatuans, “scared” of global warming.  A ‘nice’ emotive story. People being forced to shift inland to get away from the encroaching sea.  No facts, no genuine science, no hard evidence backed by research.  Just flim flam. 

What are the facts? 

According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology – an organisation usually happy twisting data to try and substantiate the global warming meme – has this graph on its website.  After 50 years of pedalling scary global warming and sea level rise the sea is exactly where it’s always been over the last 30 years. In fact, it is falling and has been for 10 years if my eyes do not deceive me.

A 15-year-old unlicensed driver with a history of stealing cars breached his electronic bail conditions and stole another car. This young man was chased by police until he crashed the car, killing himself and one passenger and severely injuring the other passenger.

The Police Conduct Authority investigated and said that police should not have chased or tried to stop the stolen vehicle. Quote.

The officer did not make appropriate risk assessments before signalling the driver to stop, starting the pursuit or during the pursuit…” End of quote.

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The Police Conduct Authority has got this totally wrong. Of course police should pursue stolen vehicles. It’s their job. When they turn a blind eye they condone criminal behaviour and encourage crime.

Then there’s the “appropriate risk assessment”. Although the offender was known to police, the officer in pursuit was unaware of the 12 and 16-year-old young girls on board. Quote.

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The people were not pleased and many did not give the full amount and some gave nothing at all so that often Government found he still did not have enough.

Also Government had discovered that the helpers were costing much more than just their wages for they were inventing expensive new schemes which were known as pipe dreams. This idea came from another far-off land called China where some of the people there occasionally smoked pipes that gave them wondrous dreams of a paradise where everything was free.

To add to Government’s difficulties he found that as well as their pipe dreams, the helpers were employing many assistant helpers and erecting expensive buildings to do their helping in and were travelling all over New Zealand to hold Conferences where they took turns telling each other how important their helping was and how lucky the people were to have the benefit of it.

The Australian federal election result is sending shockwaves through the Queensland state Labor government. The Adani coalmine is widely seen as a key factor in the almost-obliteration of federal Labor in that state. The Palaszczuk government has gone into panic mode.

After all, it was only two state elections ago that Queensland Labor was also almost wiped out: reduced to just enough MPs to squeeze into a family sedan. quote.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has spectacularly backflipped on her government’s forced delays of approvals to controversial Adani coal mine, in the wake of federal Labor’s wipe-out in the state at the weekend election.

I realised at 4am yesterday morning that the black dog had got me. I had tried to avoid him by going for walks in the sun and by using various mental techniques I have used successfully for many years to lock my worries and fears away in a room in my mind.

I tried to do something about my lack of sleep as I knew that it was reducing my ability to cope. I tried everything – warm milk, cutting out caffeine, reading before lights out – and I would go to sleep but would then wake up way too early and be unable to go back to sleep. I tried sleeping tablets, which helped, but then I had to reduce them to quarter tabs as I couldn’t keep using them long term, and now, once again, I find myself working on the blog in the wee hours because I can’t go back to sleep.

I was last on antidepressants over 6 years ago, and I really, really wanted that to be the last time, as one of the side effects is horrible. However, I have got to the point where I have realised that it is simply not acceptable to be crying most days, to have no appetite for food, and to be making repeated silly errors in my work because I am asleep on my feet.

I have to do something about it and, while I really do not want to go back on them, I know from past use that they will enable me to function, and, touch wood, I will be able to sleep through the night.