17 January

So all up there’s about $250 million of bushfire relief money to spend. That’s the scale of the emotional tidal wave that followed the fires. It’ll be a mess, it takes huge amounts of coordination to spend that sort of money. How did we become so American in our thinking, that charitable giving was considered the appropriate response to the fires? Once you gut the basic infrastructure of society (to fund tax cuts), all that’s left is millions of overly emotional citizens providing charity for disasters, disasters caused by the same gutting of society’s infrastructure. A tidal wave of more emotion over spending the 250 million is sure to follow, it’s the constant theme throughout.