ABC headline tonight:
Dead baby discovery ‘hard on police’ 
It’s not that I don’t understand that police cop it. Talk to one, you’ll find out. But the headline strikes a note we hear incessantly. Everyone covering the fires for the ABC has been all over everybody else asking how they feel. Announcers even ask other announcers. Now as someone who lives in the path of Saturday’s fires, half-an-hour south of St Andrews, where people died, whose house and possibly whose family were spared by a late wind-change, I have a few feelings of my own. They seem to me completely without importance. Have we so much energy to spare from those who are truly suffering and in such terrible need that we should go about cossetting one another? Have we forgotten that there is strength in just getting on with it?