Sometimes it’s flaming difficult keeping pace with worthy issues in the Australian political cycle. Very difficult to choose which tops the list. Is it Adani wanting the names, addresses, and blood type of scientists involved in the Murray Darling Basin?
“Mateship”. The great Australian tradition at work…(even when you’re not really working)
Or is it the good work done by whatever they call the current parliamentary committe that pretends to look into rorts to ensure the improper dealings of Christopher Pyne or Julie Bishop are cleansed. So that they can get plum sinecures with lobbyists linked to their former portfolios after leaving parliament with whopping great 350 k annual pensions?
Which part of the conundrum do you not understand?
Is it the private company who gets an unlimited use of groundwater in the most severely drought affected part of Australia, unlimited so that taxpayers can pay them to fuck the continent up and with it our last natural assett?
The Great Artesian Basin…. So that it may go the way of the Great Barrier Reef!!!
Or is it the pollies who talk of double standards and vested interests, and codes of conduct who then wantonly abandon them in pursuit of more money and more wealth at the expense of taxpayers and good governance?
Good governance you may ask?
Yes indeed, wasn’t it Cicero who spoke of that crazy lefty stuff in the dying days of the last republic? And you’re confused, cos we’re a constitutional monarchy!
deluded baby boomer not equipped with a contemporary understanding of how politics works
Well you’re wrong.
Course Pyne and Bishop deserve the extra cash and the conflict of interest paid for by us. Cos that’s what those on top do. And Mr Adani is quite right to question government servants. Cos that’s what big business does.
And you, dear reader are quite right to sit back into your apathetic sludge and say ‘tisk tisk’, cos that’s what the public wants and deserve as a right.
Objectivity is a dirty word.. And it confuses the be-jeeesus outta us. We just dont get a look in. We’ve tried reality tv, and we’ve tried instagram, facebook and whatever else contitutes socal meida, and it just makes us feel more hollow.
Is there an antedote?
Is there a cure?
Is there hope?
Good thing the permafrost is melting,
Great that the Amazon is being cleared faster than you can say “Opal or Mascot Tower”.
“Quis custodes custodiet” ( “who guards the guardians”), as Tacitus was wont to say.
Who the fuck was Tacitus you may ask?
We owe so much to BOB! Set the ethical standards of contemporary politicians. Always had a many knack for having a “bob each way”.
And who knows enough Latin these days to save us in our moment of need, to tell us that since landing on the moon we aint gone backwards.
The Man cometh
To save the earth from the forces of greed and stupdity,
To save us fo the nihilism of Murdoch
To tame the beast in Trump
So HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!
Before you once again say “ Tahiti Looks Nice” and flit off to Bosnia, Bayreuth or North Carolina just stop and LISTEN!!!
Refute the climate catastrophists who would have us cowered in FEAR!
Refute Rupert who lives in fear and the power of FEAR ALONE!
The earth is not doomed
And there isa PLAN B
And his name is BORIS!
He is not a saint, not a mesiah, he’s just a very naughty boy,
“Quis custodes custodiet” C’mon you guys, why go back as far as Tacitus who no one remembers. Why not Dr.Seuss and the Bee Watcher Watchers?
Oh yes- “Keeping the Bastards Honest” implies that they are honest and bastards- only half true!