Barry Humphries' Australia

Cited in a talk by Dominic Steele, which I listened to today.

Australia is a Saturday with races on the trannie
Australia is the talcy smell of someone else's granny
Australia is a kiddie with zinc cream on his nose
Australia's voice is Melba's voice, it's also Normie Rowe's
Australia's famous postage stamps are stuffed with flowers and fauna
Australia is the little man who's open round the corner
Australia is a sunburnt land of sand and surf and snow
All ye who will not love her, ye know where ye can go!

Extremes

On Australian ABC TV's 7.30 Report tonight, there was discussion of the huge amounts Macquarie Bank executives have received and also a segment about the desperately poor in Lahore, Pakistan.

One Macquarie Bank exec managed to score $24 million in one year! A father in Lahore has taken his 11 year old son out of school because he can't afford it and has him working for 40 cents per day, for eleven hours work! Dad, who drives a motorised rickshaw earns $4 per day.

What an obscene juxtaposition!