TheBanyanTree: Floods

[Roger Pye]

A cousin of Robin's and his wife were evacuated from a Brisbane suburb 
on Wednesday, the house is now underwater. However, my 'finely-tuned 
susceptibilities' as you put them were awakened by the fact that many 
people in the US and other countries have relatives in Oz and vice versa 
and in my opinion enquiries like Tom's deserve a rational and 
responsible answer. If that is being po-faced, well so be it. Also the 
plague of politicians as you put it was in fact three people - the 
Premier of Queensland, Anne Bligh, who rose to the occasion 
magnificently, the Prime Minister of Oz who was less than magnificent 
but worth having representative of the support the feds are providing, 
and the federal opposition leader, Tony Abbott, whose asinine and 
thoughtless comments hindered rather than helped - he should have stayed 
at home.

Roger


On 15/01/2011 10:30 AM, Peter Macinnis wrote:
> I do apologise for being insufficiently po-faced for your finely-tuned
> susceptibilities, Roger.
>
> You are right: it was a tragedy, and is, but that is not what I was
> addressing.
>
> peter
>
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