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If there's one thing that the recent election campaign and its outcome demonstrated, it's the depth of the divisions that exist in our Australian community.
Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these? What are the values that unite us?
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Michael, yours is a voice of sanity, one crying in the Australian political wilderness. Driven by lust for power, Rudd's short-term economic fixes will fail us. Now is the time to aim for long-term sustainable and just goals, enabling all Australians to live in dignity.
In all fairness it should be recognised that soon after the election the Rudd government initiated a long overdue thorough investigation into the current taxation and pension arrangements. The recommendations of this inquiry are awaited. In the meantime, drastic action needed to be taken in an attempt to stimulate the economy.It is all too easy for outsiders to indulge in carping criticism of a government that is genuinely trying to resolve a most serious and unprecedented problem.
Well said David. It will be time enough to criticise the government's long term policy when we see it emerge after the inquiry. In my view, Michael's editorial would be at home in a Murdoch tabloid. Consider for example the paragraph that begins "It's no COINCIDENCE [my emphasis] that the polls were taken as many Australians received $1000 cash bonuses in their bank accounts..." Really? Does he suggest that the polls were deliberately timed to measure the effect of the hand outs, or worse that the government timed the hand outs to precede the imminent polls? Does he have evidence of that?
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Just ten days after the killing of Melbourne 15-year-old Tyler Cassidy, a Sydney woman was wounded at the weekend, in yet another police shooting. It's time to question the extent to which we should be proud of the anti-authoritarianism in our culture.