AWB? Never heard of it Your Honour

Mid week lack of motivation has struck me this morning… couldn’t be bothered going to bed last night as I sat up watching NFL and consequently overslept this morning and my diary is uninspiring as I have no scheduled meetings today, which means a plodders day at the desk and a couple of the team are on a site visit in Victoria and the boss is in the UK so the office is quiet as well… It will be a day of punching out those things that you need to get done but never have the time because you have to attend a meeting about new work that wont get done on account of the fact you have more meetings… (clear as mud?)

The news today is doesn’t inspire me with confidence either… AWB Inquiry findings handed down and 11 AWB staff have been fingered for further investigation / criminal proceedings and NOT A SINGLE GOVERNMENT MEMBER NEW A THING.  Amazing isn’t it… they can drill down into the levels of AWB management and find the assistant manager of brown paper bags guilty of dire treasonous activities yet no one in the government knew that millions of dollars were going to Saddam Hussein.  And we all have a lot of newspaper dedicated to it, but the real medium of news in Australia – television – didn’t even have it on the news.  It is kind of sad that we blithely let the government do so many things with seemingly no accountability required.  But the day that Kim Beazley confuses Rove McManus with Karl Rove, then all hell breaks loose!  Why, because it’s a TV celeb and is deemed news worthy.  I guess my point is that the media seem to have this disparate view on what makes the news and what doesn’t.  The Beazley stuff up was news worthy and highlighted that he is a bit of a gibberer but the fact that all members of Howard’s Government escaped further investigation about the practices of the AWB is astounding and no one bats an eyelid in TV land.  Sad.