So . . . the age of entitlement has ended. Well, if you're poor, or old, or sick, or unemployed it has. I haven't noticed anything in the budget that will make the obscenely wealthy actually make a reasonable contribution to this country they have violated to obtain their riches.
Will it be clear to the Australian public that we now have a government that is pursuing an agenda that will dismantle social welfare in favour of benefitting those who already enjoy the most advantage? Maybe . . . for a little while. But you can bet that the next two years will be a process of sweetening the electorate, instilling fear and bullying us into forgetting enough to vote for the Liberals again. After all - you can't trust the Greens or Labor. They might go and try to ensure a fair deal for every-one again!
Portrait by student
About Me
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- Describe myself? How about aging greenie who enjoys bushwalking and beading when she has time out from the correction and doing things with, or for, her family? During many years of teaching I have repeatedly found students wanting to call me "hippy". I'm not sure why. I'm too young - I was only eleven in 1969. And I work too hard to fit the stereotype I'm familiar with, of the lazy hippy. I think a defining moment for me was when, concerned about the conservative nature of the day's business, I asked my eighteen year-old daughter if I looked okay, not too hippyish. She said I looked fine, then went all thoughtful and said, "But Mum . . . you are a hippy." Perhaps it's my attitude to life. But all those years of varying levels of involvement with left-wing politics aren't going to change now. I can't stop believing in peace on Earth and goodwill to all mankind, even if I do phrase it "Make Love, not War!"
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