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Where are the political heroes? : Comments
By Malcolm Colless, published 30/1/2013‘We don’t need another hero’, Tina Turner sang in the 1985 blockbuster Australian movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
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Anyone here who is without the qualification I bring is, however, welcome to an opinion ie a 16 year old.
I applaud your respect for the truth but, so often our perception of 'truth' is dependent on such a variety of external factors. Nonetheless, to ourselves it is still the 'truth'.
My concern is the tendency to restrict or ridicule those in a public forum, those whom we either disagree with or consider not to have sufficient intelligence or 'qualification'. I do believe they, like yourself have the right to a hearing.
Those that advocate for mendacious regulation of the varying forms of media, in an attempt to eliminate even the most ridiculous (to me) ideas, using the most offensive (to me) language, I view with considerable suspicion.
From what I read above, you appear to be one of those advocates. I could be wrong of course.
Do I understand that you consider myself, Individual and Hasbeen not to also respect the truth?
Hasbeen proposes an excellent character trait in a PM. One that is booring, booring booring (3) to the extent that we have a government is something operating quietly in the background, quite small and gets out of my private life.
An inconvenient 'truth' that I, like the author, has concluded, is that this government, on balance, really has made a complete and somewhat embarrassing hash of the whole damn thing.