Political Populism over Irwin
Way to go, the pollies. First QLD Premier Peter Beatie honours the late croc-hunter:
Mr Beattie, in the final week of his election campaign, said the state government was in talks with Mr Irwin's family about possible ways to honour him.
"We want to make certain that ... there's a fitting long-term tribute to Steve Irwin and it may well be we can do all sorts of things like name a national park, we could have particular awards, all sorts of things."
Nice quick grab for the votes there by Beattie. Of course not to be out-done, our beloved PM John Howard pulls out the litte "Aussie" card:
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin died in "quintessentially Australian circumstances," Prime Minister John Howard has told parliament.
Well, it's worked before hasn't it, Johnny. Probably why you invited old Irwin to your shin-dig for Bush.
This blatant vote-grabbing irritates me. All this over a croc-hunter. Now if Malcom Douglas had died, that would be another story.
One interesting thing I did discovered in the last couple of days is that old Steve Irwin had a fear of parrots due to a childhood incident. I wonder if he installed windmills around his zoo to keep them at bay?
Mr Beattie, in the final week of his election campaign, said the state government was in talks with Mr Irwin's family about possible ways to honour him.
"We want to make certain that ... there's a fitting long-term tribute to Steve Irwin and it may well be we can do all sorts of things like name a national park, we could have particular awards, all sorts of things."
Nice quick grab for the votes there by Beattie. Of course not to be out-done, our beloved PM John Howard pulls out the litte "Aussie" card:
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin died in "quintessentially Australian circumstances," Prime Minister John Howard has told parliament.
Well, it's worked before hasn't it, Johnny. Probably why you invited old Irwin to your shin-dig for Bush.
This blatant vote-grabbing irritates me. All this over a croc-hunter. Now if Malcom Douglas had died, that would be another story.
One interesting thing I did discovered in the last couple of days is that old Steve Irwin had a fear of parrots due to a childhood incident. I wonder if he installed windmills around his zoo to keep them at bay?
posted by Engels at 4:24 pm
2 Comments:
well, it was always gunna happen, election time (in QLD anyway) or not, the pollies were gunna jump out and say Steve was a great Aussie. What else would you expect from them?!
Steve was a great man though. Did heaps willingly for conservation, and then the benefits from tourism came from that. Gunna be hard to find someone to replace him!!
By the way, my sister made the news, I saw her on channel 10 and ABC news. She works for the Zoo with International promotions and marketing (something along those lines), probably doing press stuff for all around the world, bugger that at the moment!
And ten years after that, you'll see them holding their kids infront of crocs.
Good man. So he acted like a dickhead to make money, though not sure how wise it is to have to put his life on the line so often with parents. Suppose, life would've been boring for him otherwise.
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