Firstly, it is very sad that over 30 Australians lost their lives in the plane crash. My thoughts are with their families and all the people affected by the incident. However, this event happend on Friday and important events occurred during the week in parliament and since then that also warrant out attention. In due time those responsible will be made accountatble but like it or not life moves on for the rest of us.
Secondly, Tony Abbott proved what a coward he was by only coming on the show when this tradegy occurred. Afraid to face quetions from Fran Kelly over his budget measures, which he still has largely failed to introduce to the senate, changes to FOFA, allowing banks and financial planners to knowlingly make decisions which benefit them and not the client, and the fact that we are illegally holding refugees on a customs ship in the middle of the ocean, which we seem to have conveniently forgotten that we have been internationally criticised for, Tony is happy to take questions on the death of Australians overseas. Moreover, he can't help but wax lyrical that their lives have been "snuffed out". I'm not a political speech writer but this seems a bit informal and an insensitive way to refer to the recently dead.
Lastly, Fran Kelly dismisses the week in politics as silly in light of the plane crash. I'm sorry Fran but I take the illegeal rendition and refoulment of refugees seriously as well as the idea that the Commonwealth Bank can continue to rip off investors for their own multimiliion dollar profit. Rather than make the leader of this country answer for his illegal treatment of refugees, blatant climate change denial and retrograde policies, you sympathised with him and let him easily express regret and anger over a plane crash. Did you forget that you are a journalist not a cheerleader? Usually I admire your skill and tenacity even if I don't agree with your politics but you had a complete fail.
In conclusion, let us appropriately mourn the death of those Australians who died in the crash. Moreover, let us mourn the over 200 other people from foreign countries who died in the crash - which seems to be obviously missing from the coverage. Lets also mourn the many people, surely over the number killed in the plane crash, that die every day in the Sudan and war town countries such as Palestine, which is being invaded by Israel while the world focuses on Russia. Its time to get a reality check people before Tony runs us into the ground.
