Dr Blake has been closed down. It had to be. It was locally produced, popular, and well scripted. We don’t need clever writing skills in this country.
It is not often that we have something really positive to talk about. But this week has bought some stunning news. From the ABC, its great to know that another highly acclaimed, widely anticipated locally produced drama is being closed down. The ‘Doctor Blake Mysteries’, a boon to Ballarat has ceased production. This can only be good news for Ballarat-ians, who will soon have to acclimatise themselves to being in the twenty-first century, and a bonus for the employment service providers. The ABC has also cleverly closed documentary, film and current affairs units, and as the managing director policy said: ‘It’s all good news on local content, cos with adverts, it’ll present an exciting opportunity for local content. And besides Rupert is very happy’.
On the education front, the Education Minister Simon Birmingham, has upped the fees for tertiary students. Cleverly, he’s hoping to do to tertiary education what Joe Hockey did for the car industry. Clearly, as evidenced in the past the universities, (those not yet converted to vocational colleges and visa factories) are depositories for dangerous ideas. No such adjustments will apply to overseas students, who will happily pay anything to join in the Great Australian Home Investment Scheme. Another by-product of the thought bubble, the innovation revolution and the ideas boom.
Simon Birmingham. Carrying the torch for a depleted tertiary sector. Funds cleverly diverted to augment the housing sector.
Still, unsettling signs that not all thinking departments within the tertiary sector have been closed down. There’s still an arts faculty at the University of Melbourne, a disturbing incidence of thought creep that will be looked into. Soon to be sequestered to the CSIRO’s climate monitoring department and moved to a shed somewhere to the right of the slag heap in its new regional location, Mt Isa.
Happy news from the Agriculture Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, the Banana republic is well and truly here: “ Not only have we diminished education and thought, we can go further in selling off more assets to multinationals for nothing. WE have untapped resources that must be tapped, and losers and leaners that must be capped. We’re a banana driven boom and the trend is upwards. Soon (exclusions apply to cashed up members of the Chinese communist party) wages in all public departments will be paid in actual bananas. By manipulating the basic tenets of the economy and Matt Canavan’s nationalising of the banks, well have the kind of economy that the world will envy. Clean, Green and Environmental.
Barnaby. Providing as always, reliable, visionary policy direction. Seen here talking to his electorate.
And the wont be any back-chat from troublemakers in the ABC. Four Corners has been sold off to the Disney corporation, and Q and A, will continue with added funding to augment the local comedy content.
With the vexed ownership of Australian print media still in question, the Lord of Darkness Sir Rupert, (who shall be feared) has given his unconditional commitment to press freedom.
Freedom to work, freedom to be sacked, and freedom to question nothing.