Pollies act like children

PARENTS must never encourage their children to watch our national parliamentary broadcast because those who make the rules that we are expected to obey only attack and abuse each other without respect or consideration.

Talk about cats and dogs, and sometimes cats on cats and dogs on dogs. It is all too childish. Recently in the Senate, there was a slanging match between a female and male that looked like deteriorating into legal demands for apologies etc.

It is of course what grown-ups do when they are bored or disagree with another’s spruiking.

For me, it is becoming too much. Robert S Buick, Mountain Creek 1528: England experiences its first

serious outbreak of the plague. 1631: The world’s first employment

agency opens in Paris. 1827: Slavery is abolished in New York

with more than 10,000 slaves freed. 1848: The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is published. 1884: The Statue of Liberty (above) is

presented to America by France. 1934: Death of Marie Curie, PolishFrench physicist and Nobel prize winner. 1991: Heart surgeon Dr Victor Chang is

murdered on a Sydney street. 1996: President Boris Yeltsin sweeps to a second term as Russians reject his Communist opponent. 1997: The US spacecraft Pathfinder lands

on Mars.