Marfa, Tx...

 

Art Critics,

Like this stuff seen in the high-desert art town of Marfa, Texas?

Before Xmas, Scotty, that bozo from Marketing, was imploring and begging folks to travel to "the regions" in the summer holidays to plug a catastrophic hole in the tourism market so cashed-up people everywhere did the right thing and took him up on the offer in their droves - why not go see yr own country? - then that all went to shit in the constant Colonial 'border wars', didn't it, and now no-one will travel, anywhere, afraid of being locked out of home.

Zero Federal co-ordination, let alone even any simple guidelines buried in the mixed messaging from Canberra. ScoMo abrogates all responsibility - "a State issue". Nice one, dickhead.

You, yes you, should be the last one at the end of a very long queue to get a Commonwealth Dept. of Health Vaccination Certificate, not jabbed first live on national television in some limp, cheap publicity stunt. When it's your turn, it'll come in the post in an official little brown booklet, don't you worry about that.

But it got me to thinking how the Australian countryside has always been such a welcoming place for any kind of outsider, especially west of The Divide...I lived in the bush, once...