Am I the only one that remembers just fifteen short months ago Australia was ranked the happiest nation on earth? Those were halcyon days when we took for granted a government that governed for all Australians regardless of their position in life. We had an intelligent, prudent Prime Minister who could think on her feet and do our nation credit when overseas. The government was implementing far sighted policies that built on our egalitarian society; more equal educational opportunities through Gonski, the National Broadband Network setting us up for the businesses of the 21stC so we could compete with the growing economies of our region, the NDIS, investment in renewable energy and the booming renewables market..... Look at us today. Cowed and frightened for our future. We now have a government that is actively implementing policies to destroy equality in Australia and divide us into a nation of haves and have nots. By every measure that only last year made us a confident forward looking nation we are diminished. For young people losing your job now means destitution. For older Australians they will now have to work until they die. The disabled if they have any ability whatsoever will be expected to compete in the overcrowded job market with the able bodied. We have nothing to look forward to but a reduction in our standard of living as the government implements policies to drive wages and conditions back to what they were before union protections. Our children, unless we are wealthy, will now be locked out of higher education. Our fragile Australian ecosystem, the driest continent on earth, is currently having its water table destroyed by a rapacious mining sector enabled by government legislation for sale. Medicare, an institution we are rightly proud of, the best healthcare system in the developed world is now under attack. We will be returned to the days of our grandparents and great grandparents who forgoed medical care because it was unaffordable.....and Aunty, our beloved ABC is slowly dying, it has a cancer and soon it will be unrecognisable. We are under the yoke of psychopathic government . Our government want to steal Australia from us and keep it for themselves and those that aid and abet them. We, the majority are nothing more than the means to an end. To our government we are there to be used, as a commodity, and an ongoing resource until.... smh.au/business/australia-the-worlds-happiest-nation-oecd-20130528-2n87z.html
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:00:52 +0000
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