Qantas Qantas Qantas

Here are my thoughts on this whole Qantas saga.

There are so many underlying issues with this and it is hard to really understand what is going on. So I will try for those of you who don’t understand.

For some time now, with little to no notice some of the Qantas ground staff have been taking industrial action and stopping work for a period of time. Which has seen flights delayed and mostly cancelled leaving the nation scratching their heads as to where to from here.

Clearly both sides are not prepared to give any consideration to the other side and the Australian public continue to the ones held up by their ignorance. Today the CEO of Qantas has grounded all Qantas flights.

This is a big move, and one that although people claiming to be shocked by doesn’t surprise me. There were calls in the media for the government to intervene, which they chose not to do, until of course the announcement from Joyce forced them to do something.

For me it comes back to the employees who are striking! You are not punishing Joyce nor Qantas. Joyce just got a 2M pay rise! They are punishing the AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC! I am firm believer of people fighting for their rights though I don’t ever believe strike is the action to achieve what you want. I also do to an extent believe if you aren’t happy working where you are leave to somewhere that you will be happy at.

I am very happy Joyce and Qantas have made the decision they have, as it will now have to be resolved and then the Australian public won’t be punished for too much longer.

With the Queen’s visit we have just had some fantastic media attention and publicity of why Australia is so great. It is such a shame to now have this take the attention over the Queen’s visit.

I don’t believe something like this would have happened should a Liberal government be in power. Though that is an entirely another matter which I could blog about for ages!

My thoughts are my own, and I encourage your comments and discussion.

Always the voice,
JT

Positive Policing

I’m glad to be writing tonight about something very positive, and what is even better is it was about my experience tonight with the police.

The passenger that owned the car I was driving tonight had had a few to drink (and without question would have been over the limit) so I without hesitation took to the wheel to drive the car, and didn’t even think to get my wallet, or indeed put the P-Plates on the car.

Luckily I didn't alow the passenger to drive, as just around the corner I came to a random alcohol and drug testing station, as expected I passed both tests, though as above there were two issues, of course I wasn’t displaying my P plates, and also I didn’t have my license with me.

I am very glad the police officer used common sense in his application of the law tonight and issued me with a caution but also very logically helped me to understand a reason to him why it’s important to carry a license.

The officer does a lot of traffic work and of as a part of his job attends several Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) scenes and reminded me the easiest way to identify a person involved in an accident to inform their family is of course their license.

The officer who I don’t even know the name of gave a fantastic name to ACT policing tonight and I fell it to be my duty to inform everyone.

Though I know it’s illegal not to display your P-Plates and drive without your license the common sense of this officer to understand why I had done and the big picture affect and how I protected the roads by essentially breaking the law to not break another was a fantastic positive thing.

Triumph

So what is triumph? It’s a question of great personality, what one believes triumph is lies within. I think the more important question is how does a person get to triumph? Does their triumph come from evil or good?
 

There are always going to be times in people’s lives where they struggle to see the ‘point’ in perusing what they do from day to day, month to month, year to year and even life time to life time.

People are challenged on a daily basis, they are challenged to be triumphant! But what I think is sadly missed far too often is they method they choose to take to become triumphant.
 

At the end of a day if you blow another’s candle out to make it seem like you’re the only one shining what have you got to be proud of? What did you set out to do? Do you want to be the best of the best or be the only one?

All these questions are the society we live in today, nothing is clear cut and every answer has it’s question and from re-reading what I have just written most questions are answered with questions.
 

Though I dwell on sitting on the fence on this issue the way a person triumphs is completely up to them. See below some great quotes from different people looking at triumph differently.

Always welcome your thought’s thanks for reading, hope to be writing to you again soon.
JT

Quotes on Triumph:

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
Stanislaw Lem

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Mary Todd Lincoln

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. Thompson

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
Laurie Anderson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Philip Zimbardo