....In Australia there are currently over 2.5 million people living below the poverty line, which includes over 1 million children.
We are a country that has been economically and geo-politically blessed with riches - including a 3 decade long mining boom, and yet 1 million children live under the poverty line in this country and almost 40% of the people here rely on social welfare in one way or another. WE have debt on state and private/level that shouldnt be that high. About 95% of this national debt is private/corporate debt.
WE dont discuss these issues on a national level, via an honest and open media.
What we are exposed to daily is how many terrorists there are, and how many asylum seekers we can keep away from our borders - a policy which is not only immoral but violates the very international laws that we are signed up to and pretend to uphold.
As a people we need to discuss what sort of values and morals are important to us and how we go about our daily lives and what sort of communal structures are supported and nurtured. Otherwise what sort of clowns are we and what sort of circus are we setting up for our children to live in going forward?
