'safer, fairer, kinder'...with apologies to Michael Leunig

Leunig's Olympics

This cartoon has been circulating for a week or so, but possibly some people may not have seen it yet. 

It led me to think of three qualities I would like to see more of at the moment:

Safer

• Change the gun laws in the US, period. If Howard could do it, after the Port Arthur massacre, why not Obama? 
• Oh, and don't text and drive.

Fairer - To the Queensland Government: 

• Stop threatening to slash 20,000 public service jobs in the September budget. 
• Stop defunding important essential services, like Breast Cancer screening and Sisters Inside. 
• Support the National Disability Insurance Scheme. 
• Think about why there is a budget deficit - because the State has been chronically underfunding services for decades, and the previous Labor government did try to do something about this. 
• Services cost money - there is no way around this basic fact. 
• Not providing services costs more in the long term - but by then, perhaps Labor will be back in power...
• And same sex marriage. If Tasmania can do this, why not Queensland?

Kinder

• Hopefully, we all know how to do this one. 
• Just do it. 

More later.