Michael Portilo's railway journeys have been in general fascinating and informative. This one however was disappointing.
He paid scant attention to the Australian National Capital, Canberra. A few minutes in the federal Parliament House and a brief walk through a park.
Astonishingly, incomprehensibly, he totally ignored the Australian War Memorial and the ANZAC heritage, the REAL heart of the city and the nation. By comparison, Parliament House, the haunt of the much derided 'pollies', fades into insignificance.
Far too much time is spent in Melbourne and as usual, the areas he focused on are typically 'Portillo quirky'. His focus on the murdering outlaw Ned Kelly and Melbourne jail, against his ignoring the AWM in Canberra, insults the memory of the TRUE Australian heros, some 100 000 killed defending Australia and, at the time, the British Empire.
He watches a restored print of the 1906 movie on the Kelly Gang, from .... the Nstiobal Film and Sound Archive, located in CANBERRA!
His trip to a sheep wook property in Victoria is in ignorance of the fact that the fine wool capital of Australia, Yass, anout 50 km north west of if .... CANBERRA.
Beyond this, the episode is its usual standard of interest and information?
He paid scant attention to the Australian National Capital, Canberra. A few minutes in the federal Parliament House and a brief walk through a park.
Astonishingly, incomprehensibly, he totally ignored the Australian War Memorial and the ANZAC heritage, the REAL heart of the city and the nation. By comparison, Parliament House, the haunt of the much derided 'pollies', fades into insignificance.
Far too much time is spent in Melbourne and as usual, the areas he focused on are typically 'Portillo quirky'. His focus on the murdering outlaw Ned Kelly and Melbourne jail, against his ignoring the AWM in Canberra, insults the memory of the TRUE Australian heros, some 100 000 killed defending Australia and, at the time, the British Empire.
He watches a restored print of the 1906 movie on the Kelly Gang, from .... the Nstiobal Film and Sound Archive, located in CANBERRA!
His trip to a sheep wook property in Victoria is in ignorance of the fact that the fine wool capital of Australia, Yass, anout 50 km north west of if .... CANBERRA.
Beyond this, the episode is its usual standard of interest and information?
