Just like watching the detectives,
C
Don’t get cute
G
Watching the detectives,
Am G
I get so angry when the teardrops start
F C
But he can’t be wounded cos he’s got no heart
G C
Watching the detectives,
Watching the detectives — Elvis Costello “Watching the Detectives” [with chords].
“It is 9th February 1985.
We have no power.
Each suburb in Brisbane gets only about one and a half hours power each evening.
Tonight we got 45 minutes because we’re near factories in West End that are mostly shut down.
Joh is trying to take three weeks to do something that Thatcher has spent 10 years trying to achieve (in England). He is trying to destroy the economy of Queensland. First he knocked down the Brigalow, then the Democratic Rights groups and now the union.
There have been 500,000 workers stood down throughout the state. All major industries and most commerce have ground to a halt. The dream of the economist, Milton Friedman, has arrived. The National Party believes that the economy, having been destroyed, will rise up, like a Phoenix from the ashes, into a far more powerful and virulent form of free enterprise. Continue reading
