Topic tags: Fiona Katauskas, auspol, Australian government, sexism
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?
Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in our country and our world; a conversation marked by respect for the dignity of ALL human beings.
Importantly, it's a conversation that takes place in the open, unhindered by paywalls or excessive advertising. And it's through the support of people like you that it is able to do so.
'It's a shame' is too puny an expression.
“It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.” ? Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An autobiography
Rapists get away with murder in this country. How? A rapist kills the life force of the victim. 'He', the ex Liberal Minister, must go to court, be trailed and put in jail for at the very least 10 years. And right 'now', his name should be disclosed, not hide.
Boys will be boys are men will be dumb, the dumb being the cover-upping minister, bishop, studio head, school principal or whatever. The best way to burnish your ‘wokeness’ is to sell the miscreant down the river as soon as you find out about the incident. The jury of the public will be impressed, you will look good, the victim will have nothing on you and the perpetrator will confirm the biblical observation that your sin will put you in the hands of others. At least, that’s how the market model of free supply and demand would work: a demand for outrage, retribution and vindication would be met post haste with an ample supply of solicitous transparency to the satisfaction of all. Monopoly is when you effectively raise the price of disclosure by hoarding knowledge of the offence, until some free rider enters the market, discloses the event, and steals the benefits of wokeness that could have gone to you. As with economics, welfare here is advanced by self-interest, not merit. That the Liberals can’t apply their secular religion to their secular problems is the bit that is dumb.
Old habits die hard and the for-the-boys mentality of these professional manchildren is no exception. Every day this government remains is a sad day for Australians.
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