The farce that passes for politics

Many people voted for the bloke on the right (who is Left) to be Prime Minister,
not the woman on the left (who is Right)!

FOREIGN Affairs Minister (and former Prime Minister) Kevin Rudd has called for “sweeping reform” of the Labor Party, saying “the aggressive conservative onslaught of a resurgent right” could push the party into a situation where it could “fade away”.

“We are fools if we do not understand that the public has had a gutful of what currently passes for much of our national political debate,” Mr Rudd said.

He is absolutely correct.(LINK)

As Southern Highland News columnist Dr John Hewson often writes, our politicians are too busy paying attention to their egos rather than paying attention to what the country wants or needs.

Dr Hewson wrote in one of his columns: “The essential problem is that politics has become a game, an end in itself, a daily contest to win the media against the other side.” (LINK)

But the whole political system seems to be flawed, especially within the Labor party where essentially there are three parties within the one – the Left, the Right and those in between.

This is how Kevin Rudd was rolled by Julia Gillard – and too bad for those voters who wanted Rudd as PM and not Gillard.

Rudd said in the Sydney Morning Herald at the weekend that his core concern “is how to reform our party so that it has a future, not just as a diminished political rump …”.

That’s a problem for the ALP to solve, but in the meantime we must educate our children about politics and that must start in school.

Too few of our young people pay any attention to politics when they should – and I doubt they realise that without paying attention democracy is dying – if it is not, indeed, dead already.

Five minutes to midnight

ALAN Jones made a very valid point at the Our Water Our Land Our Future rally on Saturday – it’s five minutes to midnight.
That term is in reference to the Doomsday Clock; the closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is estimated to be to global disaster.
But Jones made the comment in reference to Australia’s future – whether we will maintain our pristine farming land, our aquifers, our rivers and forests.
Make no mistake, mining and coal seam gas exploration is going to ruin this nation and make it inhabitable for our children.
Which brings me to my next point – our children know little about what is happening to their country.
At the rally on Saturday there were few young people; there were few people under age 40.
I asked my 14-year-old daughter what she knew about coal seam gas extraction and she looked at me as if I had two heads.
Our educators need to make our children aware of this issue, but you can bet it won’t happen because politicians are involved and they will say it’s a political issue.
Well it’s not.
This is a very real issue that involves the future of our country.
Tell your children about these insidious miners from foreign countries that are raping our country and couldn’t care less about the consequences.
Tell them to add their names to the petition that will be circulating in the Southern Highlands.
Tell them to write to their local members of parliament.
Tell them to write to the Prime Minister.
Tell them to get off Facebook and to use the internet to research this subject and that unless they start to take an interest in politics and what is happening in the world around them, then by the time they have children they won’t have a decent world to live in.
This threat is real and we must react.
Take a look at THIS LINK Take a look at this link, especially the YouTube videos. Or go HERE.  Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.