Australia’s treasurer Joe Hockey exudes love and understanding. We take the train to Cronulla to find out exactly what makes this southern Sydney suburb so great. And there are shellfish, damn fine shellfish.
Back from hiatus thanks to your support, this episode of The 9pm Edict heads south to the Sutherland Shire to follow up the words of our Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Scott Morrison, as quoted in The St George & Sutherland Shire Leader in March:
“I get so much encouragement when I walk through Cronulla mall, go down the beach, or up to Miranda Fair… On Australia Day we were at the fireworks at Cronulla and I was walking through the crowd and people were coming up to me to say ‘g’day’ and encourage me and congratulate me on what we had done so far, and basically saying ‘keep giving it to ’em and don’t back down’.”
He said residents weren’t against immigration or asylum-seekers but wanted a process that was done “the right way”.
But there’s much more, including observations about the films The Princess Bride and Solaris. For some reason.
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[Credits: Photograph: Cronulla seen from North Cronulla Beach, taken by Stilgherrian on 5 May 2014. The 9pm Edict theme by mansardian, Edict fanfare by neonaeon, all from The Freesound Project. Joe Hockey interview by by Alan Jones and 2GB, 2 May 2014. Kentucky and Texas soundbites from BBC World Service Assignment. Photograph of Stilgherrian taken 29 March 2009 by misswired, used by permission.]
Thank you for the 9pm Edict – the Shire edition
It seems an interesting experiment: to try and capture the essence of a place in a podcast, and I appreciate your conclusion. When we used to live in Sydney I never took to ‘the Shire’. I’ve found it hard to identify why that was, although I think some of what I didn’t like was captured in your recording. It seems to have a ‘country town’ mentality and embodied the ‘negative’ connotations that phrase can bring to mind. A place which yearns for the ‘old times’ and carries with it a dislike of the new, particularly new people. I do have to admit though: hearing about the muscles served at the pub made me rather hungry 🙂