What a week!

This week we’ve seen an unremarkable PM replaced by a significantly more vicious person. Some of us are breathing a sigh of relief at the elevation of the “not as bad” choice. I generally stick to matters culinary in this blog, but these climate change deniers will do nothing to ensure food security for Australia.

Morrison was the original (!) author of the decision not to provide comment on “on-water matters”. While you might agree with offshore detention, (I don’t), whatever happened to freedom of information in this country? Gulag Australia? Hence my feeble attempt at humour: “A Pentecostal, a Jew and a mad monk walk into a bar”.  There’s no punchline because it’s not funny.

I am a migrant, and the child of a migrant father whose father was a refugee. My Mum was born in the UK as was her mother, but Nana’s parents were refugees from a small town in Lithuania. Unsurprisingly not one Jew from that town survived the Holocaust. My paternal grandfather’s sisters who remained when he fled Tsarist Russia, were never heard from again either, because no-one would take these refugees.

I do take it personally, but then I know that fair minded Australians without these histories also take it personally. The ALP has shown no guts or compassion on this either. Is this what we have become?

I’m a big fan of Samantha Bee and I find her anti-Trump rants are as funny as they are astute. This week she pointed out America’s dependence on so-called “undocumented workers”. She suggests that you shouldn’t “bite the hand that feeds you”. In fact, she goes further arguing the country would go hungry without those folks working in hospitality, food manufacturing and farming. Watch this week’s episode!

Who knows whether Australians still think of us as a multicultural nation? Eating the odd kebab won’t do it, nor will Morrison’s  Scomosas. Yes, we have a multiculinary food culture, but does that make us a successful multicultural nation the week after Fraser Anning’s disgraceful speech? Calm down, we aren’t Singapore!