I'm still P***ED about what's happening with the boat-people at the moment, but I'm really happy that the Captain of the Norwegian Freighter got the ship inside Australian Waters before it could be stormed by Australian Special Forces.
WooHoo! :D
Why is this so good? Because the boat-people are in AUSTRALIAN WATERS, so AUSTRALIA needs to take responsibility for what happens to them (or so far as my interpretation of the law goes, they need to).
Whether "Responsibility" can be defined as the inhumane action of sending them back into International Waters is another question.

Had a big debate about it in Politics, which I loved. It was Me, Jon, Brent Mc and Amy onto everyone else (including the teacher)... The facist action does have majority support, but judging by this and the un-screened callers of a 3LO Radio Call-in segment, the action has majority (but not 90%) support.

So much energy today. So many good things are happening.
I helped friends hang their photographical works up in the Arts Centre at school
I got to spend time with the friend who I was looking through the school diary with. He went to the ReachOut.com.au web-site which I recommended he go to a while back and found it really useful. (Ahh, god bless ReachOut! Did some fundraising for them two weeks ago at school, so everyone has ReachOut! stickers :) )
Plenty of other great things have happened today too.

But best of all I saved a possum today!
As I was walking home, I nearly stepped on what I thought was a rat. I bent over to see why it wasn't scurrying away and saw it was a female ringtail possum - smaller than the palm of my hand.
She was squealing in pain, obviously having fallen from the Eucalypt she lay at the base of. Barely covered with fur, too young to be without the security of her mother's pouch, she had instinctively wrapped her tail around the branch she had fallen from. She was cold, hungry and dehydrated, (and so cute that I can't understand why anyone would walk past her). I gently wrestled her into a small cloth and ran her to the local Wildlife Reserve (just down the street).
She fell asleep in my hands, weighing less than the cloth she wrapped up in.

Lucky I ran to the Reserve. I caught the Park Ranger just as he was about to leave.
He couldn't tell if she would live or not, but he's taking her to a "Wildlife Carer" to nurse her back to health.
I really hope she lives. Ringtail possums are becoming endangered with the introduction of cats to Australia's fragile eco-system.

If you want to see a picture of a Ringtail Possum a little older than the one I helped, have a look at this site. It describes pretty well what "my" possum was like.
http://www.linknet.com.au/chrisy/media/media.htm#lumley