ABC Mental Health Week

This is why we need and must fight for the ABC, when the mainstream commercial networks are spewing out the Bachelor, Big Brother & yet another singing competition (with the winning having no hope of ever selling a platinum selling record) it's time to applaud the ABC for bringing Mental Health to the homes of many Australians.

Through Q&A with a very awkward Bob Katter to the weekly series Please Like Me, Josh Thomas is doing an outstanding job showing how he has grown up gay and dealt with his mothers mother illness.



Australia needs to talk about mental illness amongst it's young, middle aged and old. This is an extremely important topic and if the ABC is game enough to cover the important issues, please don't cut their funding. As a tax payer myself I don't approve of my taxes funding a war or the outrageous paid parental leave scheme. So if I can nominate for more of my taxes to the ABC funding pool that would be great.

And to Bob Katter, some good comes out of your mouth but unfortunately like so many of the Canberra decision makers you are way too old and completely out of touch of what is going on around you in the real world.

Unfortunately times have changed since the 1950's.

After watching the fantastic Back Seat Drivers edition this week about Fear I realised I am not the only one who is not terrified we are going to be attacked by IS or invaded by boat people but a large percentage of folk all feel the same. Fear comes from reading the Daily Telegraph, fear comes from the Andrew Bolts and Alan Jones of the world.

Australia stand up and be thankful for this wonderful country but challenge mainstream media and the two word slogans which have won Mr Abbott a frightening higher approval rating.

Holidays next week for me too on a lighter note so please note their will be less (or more - depending on wi-fi) posts over the coming weeks I spend in the USA.

Well done again to the ABC.