Return to sender
Spare a thought for the household that didn’t get a letter from the Department of Transport last week saying their house was going to be resumed for the Bruce Highway Western Alternative.
As far as they knew, everyone whose lives were about to be upended had been notified, so they could perhaps take a deep breath and move on with their lives. Afraid not.
That’d be hard to swallow.
This new route—further west and not through Elimbah direct—only resumes about 30 properties, apparently.
The only problem for said household is that there was in fact a letter, but it was sent to the wrong address. Ouch. Apparently, TMR aren’t behaving badly, but there’s a long way to go.
Snow Blight
I dragged the kids along to see Snow White and gauge whether all the fuss over the remake was justified.
If you’ve got better things to do, you’re probably unaware of how much the new movie has upset white, heteronormative male reviewers—largely because the producers dared to nix the “one day my prince will come” song and smooth over some of the other dated assumptions.
You’d think the details of a fairytale were more set in stone than the Constitution.
Although I suppose this is a country that can’t wrench itself away from the meaning of its right to bear arms. Casting a Colombian as Snow White and an Israeli—Gal Gadot—as the evil queen nearly blew some reviewers’ minds. How dare we update the expectations of girls and boys?
For me, it ticked two boxes: it was short and sweet.
Either way, I don’t think that I—or many other adults—am the target market.
The ultimate review, however, came from our youngest: “It was good. Very good.”
