The basic two tenets of European/Australian history seem to be racism and incompetence.There is no more prime example than the story of Burke and Wills. For those of you who are fortunate enough to reside in Melbourne, you can see a giant erection of the two pricks and the corner of Swanston and Collins.
I was never a country music fan, but like most things I was wrong. Not to give country a fair go would be the same as writing off Tiger Woods for laying skanks.
Talkback has the capacity to shape the national agenda. The most pertinent example of this is the topic of asylum seekers. Both sides of the political spectrum in Australia, are captives to the immediate firestorm generated, to a large part, by talkback radio. It is during debates like this that even the talkback presenters lose control of the debate and the masses take over.
