THINGS WE HEAR OVER LATTE

THERE ARE explosive allegations about goings on in a Darwin institution which if aired will cause an almighty uproar . *** WISE BUT SAD WORDS : Ink-on-paper books, with their second-cousins, newspapers, are destined for the haunts of historians, collectors and atavistic technophobes ***DARWIN MEDIA seems oblivious to happenings in beleagured West Papua where shots were recently fired at people and it is feared Indonesian proposals for palm oil production there will lead to land confiscation and large scale clearing of vegetation. It makes you wonder if there still is an Overseas Correspondents Club in Darwin, its superior members fined for writing anything about crocodiles , a subject which mesmerises local hacks. If so, do any of its illustrious members pen anything at all about the more important life and death , oppression , environmental degradation and poverty issues just across the waters ? *** Comments by the Dalai Lama’s envoy about the timidity of Australian politicians in respect of relations with China are applicable to Darwin’s pollies and media , especially in connection with the French oil company,Total, partner in the Inpex proposal, which deals with the murderous Burmese military junta, many times worse than the Gaddafi regime, China also siphoning off the Burmese energy resources.