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So we have on our hands one of, if not the most, terrible natural disasters of all time. 68,000 people dead. That is a lot of dead people. And they aren’t just a bunch of randoms on the other side of the world. The fact is they are all someone’s family, someone’s mother, daughter, cousin, father, nephew. Like the impact of it doesn’t really hit us here.
68,000 the only way I can get my head to comprehend that is to think in temrs of stadiums. 68,000 was about the number of people the MCG can hold at the moment. And on boxing day watching the cricket as the camera panned across the stadium I thought to myself “man that is a lot of people”.
Well that many people whilst we where watching the cricket where killed by a Tsunami.
Its all a n\bit crazy.

The thing that annoys me about it all, is the news coverage. The first day of news coverage was ok, it told the facts and highlighted the horror of it all. The devastation in these countries affected by the tsunami.
But then the broadcasts all went to the dogs.
Now the big news is 68,000 are dead and amongst them 6 Aussies. Now lets go down to Melbourne airport to talk to the brothers uncle of someone who new one of the Australians. Sure its sad that a hand full of Aussies died but far out. There are 65.000 out there who aren’t aussies. They lived there, they lost their homes, all their families and now any remaining people are going to die of disease and all we care about is 6 australians.

It just annoys me the angle the media take.

Tear has set up a fund to help partner agencies work in the affected areas.