Pakistan and Australia

On a lazy day on the farm in Bohemia, I wonder just how long it will take for the world media to lose interest in the now 20 million Pakistanis who have lost their homes in the nation's worst floods in its history.  The dreadful images of human suffering are still in the news, but the terrible conditions facing these poor people will endure far longer than the media's attention.

I was also dismayed to wake up this morning to news of an inconclusive election result in Australia, where I've been spending a considerable amount of time.  Until less than a month ago, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Labour Party's popularity was riding high.  But he was deposed by his deputy, Gillian Gillard who called a snap election yesterday.  It backfired with the Australian people expressing their dislilke for her treachery.  The outcome as to whether she or her Conservative opponent Tony Abbot will form a government is now in the hands of four independent members of parliament who are being wooed.  Democracy isn't always perfect by an means.


Grandpa Jonathan
Bohemia, Czech Republic