When our trusted Aunty was the trusted voice across the Pacific, no rainbow flags came with it! And should that shortwave service be resumed or even digitized, no rainbow flags would be draped over palm trees!

The only rainbow flags that exist are in the minds of bigots and fools who spread their diseased thinking, Dan, among the extremely gullible.

Who would believe the world is flat, if Dan said so. And all the water is running over the edges, never to return, given a flat world can not retain water. Or that one can escape from the asylum by sliding down a beam of light?
Alan B.

Dear good O’l Al.

You seem always to fall towards invective language when responding to ideas or comment divergent from your own views and theories.

To the contrary is my response towards your views, which I’ve often indicated my inclination towards agreement with: Not the whole stable of them though.

Obviously, to myself anyway, the modern day ABC is not a patch on the credible service it once was.
There was a time when the ABC was universally accepted and acceptable; but Al, those days are long gone, and what we are presented with now is simply unacceptable.

Not only unacceptable to sense but quite frankly unacceptable to sensibility. It cannot be denied the ABC was and increasingly is, (if that’s even possible), the public voice of a totally unacceptable new cultural view of Australia, of which gay rights features high up it’s priority list.

I’m personally disgusted with it and will happily ridicule its existence until it or I disappear.

And Al, there is no gay gene. Get over it!

Dan

I remember the ABC broadcasts from when I was cruising the Solomons. I couldn't get anything in the far north west of the chain, but did get a couple of hours from about 6.00 AM to about 8 further down.

I remember the riveting session where I was given the prices attained at the latest cattle sales & other such. I don't know if there was ever anything of interest to the locals later in the day, as I could never receive it.

I had a very good receiver, as I needed to be able to pick up the time signals from Hawaii & the US west coast, to enable my navigation in those days before sat nav was available at prices a yachty could afford. Accurate Greenwich Mean Time is critical when reducing sun or star sights.

Incidentally, the Solomons, & Boguainville Island earlier are a perfect example of what happens in the Balkans. While people from different islands in the countries had real difficulty getting at each other it was reasonably peaceful. Now improved transport has led to populations from different islands congregating in the larger towns we have civil war