Forgotten Children

So after that rant I'll start another one.

When we got here the Australian PM was appologising to the forgotten children of Australia.

Turns out our stupid government and the Ozzies stupid government thought it was a good idea to sent orphans and children from 'deprived' backgrounds to Australia to add to the population and also to gain a better outlook in life.

Turns out that this didn't happen and the children were used as slaves on farms and given the most basic of educations- most of them leaving school under the banner of retarded when they were doing perfectly well at home. To make this even worse the children's parents were sold this better life story and even told they could get their children back if they liked (this wasn't the case). This happened from the 30's till the late 60's. Even though some of these establishments were condemmed by the British government they still let children go out there.

If your interested there is a pretty good book about it all called 'The Forgotten Children' which is a good read but also really eye opening.

Anyway less of the rants- What have we been upto?

Well...

We have travelled from the rock back to Adelaide on the worst flight ever. Don't know why it was horrid but after 26ish years of flying, on my birthday, I decide that this is a horrid flight and get sweaty palms and inwardly panic all the way though it.

Like I said it was my birthday and all I wanted to do after the horrid flight was to get a bottle of vino and drink it- shouldn't be hard.

So couldn't find an offy anywhere and so went for an extortionate priced pint. Wasn't happy. Took Ben till midday to realise it was my B-day. Anyway on leaving the pub in a foul mood we went back towards the hostel crossing a road- WITH NO CARS ON IT.

A car pulls up infront of us a coulple of mins later and says, "what do red lights mean to you?" so I say "red light district" not realsing that it was a copper in an unmarked car. Stupid me, he proceeded to give us a bolloking for crossing the road with out the red light and then he went. ARSE.

Since then we have flown, quite happily may I add, to the Gold Coast (of corrupt coppers) and then caught the Greyhound bus up north. Been To Brisbane, Noosa (which is a lagoony place and quite beautiful) Rockhampton, through loads of floods, Airlie beach where we went out to the Great Barrier reef and went sailing around the Whitsundays, Townsville and we are now in Cairns.

The weather has been erratic and varied from blasing to torrential flooding. When we went to the Barrier Reef it was raining on land but when we went the 100km to the reef it was gorgeous sunshine. On the Greyhound bus one evening we couldn't see the road as there was approx 1m deep flood water and all you could see was trees and water all around.

So we're in Cairns till the 18th and then we move on north to Singapore and into South East Asia. Yippie.

Toodle Pip.