Stop the world!

My thanks to a colleague who used this phrase earlier today when we were talking about Australia's appalling performance in regards to Timor and us basically trying to shaft them out of what is legally theirs. There is a great article in The Monthly on this - and what a bully we're being in regards to oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea that it just made me feel so ashamed to be Australian. So

• as we face the most antiquated puritanical, draconian IR reforms - all in the name of progress of course,
• as we adjust to a life that decisions made on behalf of us by our government now mean we are not safe in any public place on any public transport or at any large event or venue,
• as we try to work out how to right the wrongs of the past and basically show some humanity and common human decency to nations that struggle basically because of the way they have been treated and ruled (by people or parties inflicted or imposed upon them or supported or kept there by us,

I say, in the worlds of my colleague...

Stop the world I want to get off.