hilarious false assumption

There is a false assumption underpinning
support for Howard's homeless
child-caging policy.

The false assumption is that if all
the refugees who could afford to
pay 'Dodgy World Travel' an arm
and a leg to get to Australia
were admited - we'd be
flooded with boatloads
of refugees by Friday.

One tiny piece of evidence that
such an assumption could be
hilariously false:

Long ago Australia abolished
internal state borders and
when the worst drought
in 1000 years struck,
the median strip on
Northbourne Avenue
was NOT filled with
drought refugees
from NSW who
used it as a
public loo!

Why not?

Because like foreign refugees
Aussies in difficulties LOVE
their home turf and will
resist having to move
(from where they love)
with might and main
until death stares
them in the face!

So the self-centred idea that
Australia is the best place on
Earth is confined to us!

The self-centred idea that
we'll be swamped is
equally ludicrous.

In my private life I've discovered
that provided I'm doing the right
thing (not the evil, selfish or
fearful thing) paths appear
I didn't know existed and
mountians become
molehills.

As an old friend of mine says:

Fear knocked at the door.
Faith opened the door.
Nobody was there.

Purely by chance, or maybe not purely
by chance, the tank-maker just
phoned and our new rainwater
tank will be delivered today!

When full it will hold 6,000 litres
which takes our total capacity
to 30,000 litres of rainwater.

PLUS this story was in the
Canberra Times a week
after our rooftop solar
panels were installed
to pump electricity
back into the grid:



Bottom Line:

If I do the right thing to gain
the reward, the reward won't
appear.

But if I do the right thing
because it's the right
thing to do, the
reward will
appear!