Time lapse – P2’s day.
When he’s ‘on a hunt’ we often loose track of P2, so GD fitted a small transmitter to his collar, the image we got back was ‘interesting’ if muddled (not to mention muddied).
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The tangled world of vested interests and political connections was where he kicked off, looking for more pieces to the O’Sofullame jigsaw puzzle. The old bones P2 brought back provided some interesting pieces – but they don’t quite fit the matrix – Oh, they belong there alright, its just that the bridging pieces from the border need a another bit or two before the whole thing can be brought into focus. Some of those old bones are intriguing, one from Lockhart river, a couple from MH 370, a small one from Singapore and an interesting piece which looks very much as though it came from a Qld company. Can’t make heads nor tails of it at the moment and much depends on your point of view, perspective or perception of how things stand. No matter. P2 is home again, needing a bath a brush and a feed; conflicting elements can wait for a day or two.
O’Sofullame is a hot topic this week, he starred at the BRB indaba, if you can call attracting the most adverse comments I’ve heard in a long while; which is saying something. He’s in with a tough crowd to top; McConvict, Beaker, Electric Blue, HV Hood, Hoostoblame, Boyd and Chester, to name just a few. Now I’ve seen the BRB all fired up before, but then they railed against ‘immediate’ insult to honesty and integrity. The fire under O’Sofullame’s boots has been a slow starter, from a cool flame, not any longer. The last Estimates really fanned the flames but it was the performance in Cloncurry which generated the real heat. Aye well – it may all settle down – but my tote board is against that. Yes GD & TB when I firm up the board I’ll put it up, don’t even have the runners yet.
The subject did eventually change to other vested interests, to wit – those of the alphabet soup groups’. Hitch, in Australian Flying sums up the bare bones of the current ruck, but delves no deeper than ‘the facts’. But there’s much, much more to the tale. P7 nailed it at the BRB – "what in hell are the ‘leaders’ of these groups playing at" – when essentially they all want the same thing – reform now; yesterday would have been great, but tomorrow will do. The economic advantages, across the board, to both large and small of reduced compliance costs, standing alone, should be enough motivation for thinking men to put aside their self interest and stand united behind a reformation of the Act, the regulations and the regulator. You’d be forgiven for thinking that those in charge should see this and be acting in concert; you’d be wrong of course – unless you suspected some altruistic motive for staying ‘on-side’ and helping to divide and enjoying the spoils of conquest. Shame really, there are some good minds out there – selfish, purblind and scared – up to the membership to bring ‘em (screaming and kicking if needs be) to the sticking place I’d say.
"But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail."
Toot - MTF - toot.
When he’s ‘on a hunt’ we often loose track of P2, so GD fitted a small transmitter to his collar, the image we got back was ‘interesting’ if muddled (not to mention muddied).
The tangled world of vested interests and political connections was where he kicked off, looking for more pieces to the O’Sofullame jigsaw puzzle. The old bones P2 brought back provided some interesting pieces – but they don’t quite fit the matrix – Oh, they belong there alright, its just that the bridging pieces from the border need a another bit or two before the whole thing can be brought into focus. Some of those old bones are intriguing, one from Lockhart river, a couple from MH 370, a small one from Singapore and an interesting piece which looks very much as though it came from a Qld company. Can’t make heads nor tails of it at the moment and much depends on your point of view, perspective or perception of how things stand. No matter. P2 is home again, needing a bath a brush and a feed; conflicting elements can wait for a day or two.
O’Sofullame is a hot topic this week, he starred at the BRB indaba, if you can call attracting the most adverse comments I’ve heard in a long while; which is saying something. He’s in with a tough crowd to top; McConvict, Beaker, Electric Blue, HV Hood, Hoostoblame, Boyd and Chester, to name just a few. Now I’ve seen the BRB all fired up before, but then they railed against ‘immediate’ insult to honesty and integrity. The fire under O’Sofullame’s boots has been a slow starter, from a cool flame, not any longer. The last Estimates really fanned the flames but it was the performance in Cloncurry which generated the real heat. Aye well – it may all settle down – but my tote board is against that. Yes GD & TB when I firm up the board I’ll put it up, don’t even have the runners yet.
The subject did eventually change to other vested interests, to wit – those of the alphabet soup groups’. Hitch, in Australian Flying sums up the bare bones of the current ruck, but delves no deeper than ‘the facts’. But there’s much, much more to the tale. P7 nailed it at the BRB – "what in hell are the ‘leaders’ of these groups playing at" – when essentially they all want the same thing – reform now; yesterday would have been great, but tomorrow will do. The economic advantages, across the board, to both large and small of reduced compliance costs, standing alone, should be enough motivation for thinking men to put aside their self interest and stand united behind a reformation of the Act, the regulations and the regulator. You’d be forgiven for thinking that those in charge should see this and be acting in concert; you’d be wrong of course – unless you suspected some altruistic motive for staying ‘on-side’ and helping to divide and enjoying the spoils of conquest. Shame really, there are some good minds out there – selfish, purblind and scared – up to the membership to bring ‘em (screaming and kicking if needs be) to the sticking place I’d say.
"But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail."
Toot - MTF - toot.