Yep, we’re a pretty nice bunch, relatively speaking….at the moment.

But crikey, there is an awful lot of ‘unniceness’ lurking just below the surface, which could turn into full-blown horribleness very quickly, if we keep going the way we currently are.

Our tolerance is really being tested, by porous borders, by a PM and opposition leader who just cannot be trusted, by extremely high immigration and the resultant stress on services and infrastructure, by the ordinary citizen benefitting very little, or even in the negative, from the profits being generated from our enormous mineral wealth, etc.

Add to this the very likely downturn of the mining boom in the near future and the rising price of oil, and we could well see massive anger and civil unrest.

We need to be very careful about where we are heading. I could all unravel very quickly.

I could unravel??

Oow.

I think I already am! ( :>|

A general peek will give the impression that Australians are very, very lucky, and really, really nice. However, we are not. We choose to withhold freedom from some of the most powerless people alive, from children, from asylum seekers, from people who fail to adapt to our currently favoured social norms. We are lucky. We are not nice.

We are lucky in that we can tell ourselves we're nice. We are not nice, because we are part of a political order that harms people. We are highly regulated/controlled. We are not nice. We have not become the people our grandparents died for us to be. We have squandered freedom whilst we withhold it from others. We-are-not-nice.

You say some reasonable things Cassandra but holding up a band whose lead singer drowned in his vomit really is not something we can be proud of. To many imitating their idols.

I loved this positive thinking, pro-Australian article :)

I agree with all the author said, especially about ACDC... and I still mourn the death of Bonn Scott, no matter how he died!

I like to believe that most Australians are 'nice' because we all live in this very lucky country, that people from so many other nations aspire to migrate to.

We can only get better too.

Advance Australia Fair, and Merry Christmas to all!

Advance to where, Suse?