Parliament opens for the sitting fortnight with a unique poll showing Labor and the government deadlocked on 50% on the two party preferred degree,and the prime minister’s satisfaction rating down five points. All the developments from Canberra, live 1.58am GMTNotwithstanding the feeling that I really need eyes in the back of my head nowadays, or here’s one excerpt from Stan Grant’s speech.
Stan Grant:As a reporter I was drawn to those stories that mirrored my own. Always I sought to reply this question: how enact we live lives of dignity and meaning when all certainty has been removed? What makes a man who has lost a son to war and natural disaster get up in the morning and find a job to put food on the table for his remaining children? How does a mother mourn and yet love and nurture at the same time?What does the future mean when the now is so bleak? And when I reported these stories,I met myself in the eyes of Afghan refugees, I saw my family in the eyes of a peasant Chinese farmer looking for a foothold in the China dream, or I saw my sawmiller father. Here were lives shaped by the great forces of our time,as surely as my own, and that of my people. 1.43am GMTMy Guardian Australia colleague Stan Grant is currently giving an address to the National Press Club. I’ll try and look in on that once I get a small wreck from Senate reform.
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Source: theguardian.com