LETTERS Reckless Porn
Sir: Kim Fletcher ('New south wails', 17 January) should know that one Australian tradition is alive and well: we don't like whingeing, patronising Poms.
There have been 29 drownings on Aus- tralian beaches this summer —all of them foreign tourists or people who lived more than 50 km from the ocean. Kim Fletcher got the lecture from the Manly Council not because Manly Council is made up of busy- bodies, but because someone would have had to go out and save him and his daugh- ter if they had been caught in a rip. I like the fact that, while the safety announce- ments on other airlines are given by a softly spoken stewardess to whom nobody pays any attention, on Qantas they are given by a loud prerecorded male voice that says, 'I must have your complete attention!, — and he gets it, too.
Kim Fletcher doesn't understand Aus- tralia. Ours is not a nanny state, but a no- nonsense one. If the Manly Council man had truly been overbearing, he shouldn't have suffered in silence in the traditional English stiff-upper-lip, put-up-with-any- thing-but-whinge-about-it-later manner. He should have told him to piss off.
David Morgan
10 Kimberley Street, Killara, Sydney, Australia
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