Peter Garrett “once had a penpal in Gisborne. There’s your Kiwi connection, so that’s it.”
OPINION/SATIRE: This week Facebook, helmed by Mark Zuckerberg, the apparent evil twin of Marvel’s Peter Parker – a passing-for-teenage man bitten by a radioactive spider but who instead of using his powers for good spins a worldwide web of dopamine-inducing likes, cat memes and fake news – locked tentacles with the Australian government. It was a battle described by commentators as “Wait, what – is coal-loving 2020 bushfire scarperer ScoMo the goodie in this? Give me a moment to process – I was just getting my head around Aung San Suu Kyi being a Nobel Peace Prize-winning hero, then a genocide-enabling villain, then a coup-deposed resistance hero again. Now this?”
Why would you want food for ten days? What Sonu Sood asked migrant labourers at Kalwa Chowk
In I Am No Messiah , Sonu Sood writes with Meena Iyer that migrant labourers didn t believe him first but his plea had an impact like Shah Rukh Khan’s dressing-room speech in Chak De! India. Text Size:
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If I had given in to the celebrity syndrome of sitting in my ivory tower and having my largesse delivered to the needy by remote control, I would never have come face to face with the trauma of the migrant workers or understood that a food packet was a woefully inadequate substitute for a ride back home.