Pat’s Point of View

I’d like to start by offering my condolences to the victims and families of yesterday’s terrorist attack in Bali.

This nonense is getting closer to home all the time. I don’t think Australians have comes to terms with the dangers of our modern world. We’re geographically - and in many ways culturally - remote and quite accustomed to be left out and over-looked. As a result I think we as a nation are complacent and lazy. As a community as a whole we rest of the laurels of “the sunburnt country” reputation we have, and often don’t strive for anything more than that.

Maybe it’s just because I’m stilling adjusting to being back, but I get the impression a lot of people here are quite close-minded…or perhaps small-minded is a better term. Not intentionally, but things like terrorist bombings on our doorstep will no doubt smack many people in the face and wake them up to what much of the rest of the world has had to live with for a long time.

A bit heavy for a Sunday morning, I know, but there you go.

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