It's like it's pathological for him. Alan Jones, Australia's seminal right-wing radio shock jock, this week called for Sydney Opera House chief executive Louise Herron to be fired in light of suspended betting for the Everest horse race which was to be projected on the SOH's sails.
Now I don't know about Ms. Herron, but Jones has now had decades worth of reasons to be fired himself, permanently. To name but a few, calling the selection of Mr. Yunupingu as 1993's Australian of the Year an insult and claiming he was only being given that honour because of his race, claiming former PM Julia Gillard's father died of shame, saying last year that we need more Stolen Generations, or being caught in the 1980s of lewd acts with young boys while coaching junior rugby league in Sydney. He's one of the few people who truly make me ashamed to be an Australian.
Regardless, instead of using the SOH to broadcast something as frankly superficial as a horse race (and remember how horse-racing is commonly associated with gambling, animal cruelty and alcohol advertising), if we wish to use it to promote anything, should it not be some meaningful, topical social issue? I for one could very easily get behind that.
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