It's pitch black outside as if it's mid-winter... 6.20am with street lights on and not a sign of the sun rising in the east. You'd think it would be time to put the clocks back an hour and grant us all that extra hour of sleep we've been missing since last October. But no, folks. Somewhere in the south of this big land, there is a sporting event called the Commonwealth Games, which some genii somewhere decided was reason enough that we should all keep our clocks on Eastern Summer Time a bit longer than usual.
(oooh! the birds just started chirping... dawn mustn't be far off!!)
I mean what's the big deal... 99.99% of the population not actually involved with the Games is going to be inspired to entertain in their backyards and have Commonwealth Games parties? This is no major sporting event, really. Sure the Queen visits, and we put on an opening ceremony with a boy and his duck, but is it really that exciting when Australia races NZ, England, Wales, Scotland, South Africa and occasionally India and kicks butt because of the huge injection of cash that sport gets in this country?
I am growing (even more) tired of the obsession this country has with sport, and wish the big media machines would direct their attention elsewhere ("wishing" isn't enough, I know). What about all the other things we are "achieving" that routinely misses out on press coverage? My "local" paper actually has a "Health and Science" section, but it is highly skewed towards the Health side of things, as if the general public (or journalists?) can't relate to anything that doesn't affect their bodies or those of their loved ones. What about major achievements in soil science, engineering, biological science, chemistry, physics etc etc? Apparently you have to win a Nobel Prize to get any scientific press coverage in this country beyond the ABC. This is not because of a shortage of media releases in the area, I can assure you...
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