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I am saddened and appalled by the recent experience I had to endure of watching Australia dither about scratching their ‘expert’ heads while a magnificent creature starved to death over five long days; the same creature that this country makes millions off a year in tourist dollars.

We consider ourselves ‘the smart country ‘investing billions of public money into research every year, celebrating our own achievements just recently in the Eureka Awards, Australia’s home-grown version of the Nobel Prize; but we couldn’t save one starving baby whale, not even when the research had already been done for us by an obviously smarter and more proactive country.

Five days, the media fed while the baby whale starved. TV ratings and newspaper sales shot up all over the country and everyone got their 15mins of fame.

Five days, Australia and its ‘experts’ did nothing but watch and talk and talk some more, and on the last day, we did what was easiest not what was right.

Postscript:
Since writing this ‘Colin’ has been destroyed; without grace or dignity, those who did it claim she went peacefully. Channel 10 footage says otherwise, she went fighting; confused, distressed and alone. A shameful day for the ‘clever’ country