Humility personified

Peter FitzSimons has these comments in his The Fitz Files’ What they said in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald.
Ash Barty quotes from The Little Mermaid, when asked how she made her shot selection: “The seaweed is always greener in someone else’s lake.” Barty on her Wimbledon elimination : “I didn’t win a tennis match. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a game ... It’s disappointing right now. Give me an hour or so, we’ll be all good. The sun’s still going to come up tomorrow.

More’s the pity/shame/disgrace a couple of Australian male tennis players also playing on the international stage cannot display the same good grace.

Credits: Peter FitzSimons and The Sydney Morning Herald

Tweets of the Week

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— Noely ⚡️⚡️ (@YaThinkN) June 30, 2019

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How can Americans NOT

find the United States

on a World Map?

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— Tom Hall ☘ (@TomHall) July 3, 2019

Quotes of the Week

"All billionaires want the same thing – a world that works for them. For many, this means a world in which they are scarcely taxed and scarcely regulated; where labour is cheap and the planet can be used as a dustbin; where they can flit between tax havens and secrecy regimes, using the Earth’s surface as a speculative gaming board, extracting profits and dumping costs. The world that works for them works against us.” [Journalist George Monbiot writing in The Guardian on 3 July 2019]

"Scott Morrison loves “quiet Australians”. The Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison government especially loves quiet charities, quiet scientists, quiet environmentalists, quiet journalists, quiet human rights commissioners, quiet workers in quiet unions and a quiet public broadcaster. It will burn for anyone who stays quiet – and threaten to burn down anyone who raises their voice.” [Pastor Brad Chilcott writing in , 8 July 2019]

It’s said to be only gossip, but ... where there’s smoke there’s fire

CBD in Friday’s Herald carried this piece.

Credit: The Sydney Morning Herald’s CBD

Australian society in 2019

It seems when it comes to personal wealth only the poor admit the truth of their financial situation.

Those who are financially well-off in Australia apparently refuse to recognise their good fortune.

This rather strange state of affairs was very obvious during the 2019 federal election campaign.

Last month the national public broadcaster asked its online readers to guess where they stood on the income scale and this was the result.....

ABC News, 2 July 2019:

The interactive divided people into 13 income bands, corresponding to the bands in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' data.

People were asked to estimate which bracket they sat in, and were then asked to enter their weekly take-home pay.

After removing certain outliers with outlandish responses (we're looking at you, Mr or Ms $1 trillion a week) there was a marked difference between those in the top and bottom halves of the income distribution when it came to estimating their place.

Respondents in the top seven brackets (earning more than $800 per week) fared far worse at guessing their place than those in the bottom six brackets. In fact, our lower-earning respondents were 2.6 times better at estimating their place than their higher-earning counterparts…….

But it was those in the third-highest bracket — earning between $1,750 and $2,000 per week — who fared the worst at estimating their position.

Only 2.85 per cent of respondents in this bracket correctly identified their place and the average guess was 3.2 brackets lower than reality.

If you watch just one TV program this week make it this one

ABC TV on Wednesday night provided yet another fantastic episode of Ahn’s Brush With Fame. If you missed it catch up with it when it’s replayed on Sunday 14 June at 5.30pm, otherwise see it on ABC iView here.



In this week’s episode:

Anh invites ground-breaking singer/songwriter Archie Roach to the studio to tell his story as a member of the Stolen Generation. He shares how music and soulmate Ruby saved him from a life of anger on the streets.

Credit: ABC TV

Something to think about

Credit: Wilcox