![]() ![]() Other countries can shoulder the brunt of our climate-denying damage. The UN can deal with Tony's human rights abuses. So when Joe stands in front of a carefully selected group of Pinot Noir aficionado's and, with a red wine in hand, announces that the age of entitlement is over, alarm bells started ringing in my head. We were morally outraged, suitably embarrassed and downright confused a lot of the time, but my backyard was as green as it ever has been. ![]() We suffered ALL of this, but it was bearable, because, cruelly and harshly, it didn't directly impact upon us. We watched with horror as Tony bumbled his way around various foreign incidents, openly offending Indonesian politicians and reducing one of our generations worst human rights crises in Syria to a case of 'Goodies and Baddies'. We sat in disbelief as Tony and co dismantled governmental integrity on scientific pursuits, as they cut funding to the CSIRO and joined the cave-dwellers who seem to think climate change is a left-wing construct designed to divert funding away from upper class tax cuts (mining tax, anyone?). We laughed openly at the folly of re-introducing Dames and Dukes to Australian political figures. We endured the archaic treatment of human life in the morally catastrophic (and possibly illegal) 'turn back the boats' pillar. ![]()
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