Topic tags: Fiona Katauskas, COVID19, coronavirus, Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, app
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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Worse than that, Fiona. Its release is being handled by that careful, meticulous and technology-whiz-kid Stuart Robert. Then it might go on to become the Duttonator. Our only hope is that Stuart fluffs it, again.
Morrison must be tone deaf. The problem is not that the people don't trust the government but rather that the government can't be trusted. The problem is the inevitable outcome of the government's record. The solution requires a public acknowledgement by the government of the cause and a demonstrated change in government behaviour.
This proposal is horrifying and deeply depraved. It is totally against respect for humanity, and denies human beings, including chidlren, their rights to an impartial judicial process. Please, everyone, don' accept this inhumanity!
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