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Democracy or bureaucracy : Comments

By Susan Wight, published 29/5/2017

Bureaucrats are gradually writing themselves more power even though they represent no one and can never be voted out. They are eroding democracy.

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Already there Susan. Have been for some time.
Most only find out about a new rule after it's in place and never question how it came to be. Typically the sports pages raise more chatter.
It's the same everywhere.
Our current government down here in Van Diemen's Land has proven no less captured by the public service than the ones that preceded it. They perhaps get more excited over different things but just as spendthrift and just as inclined to defer to departments to draft new regulations and just as inclined to rubber stamp them without question.
Looking at the elected members they're all career public servants themselves. I suspect that's the problem. They know nothing else.
So long as the punters keep voting for the devil they know because it feels safer this trend's going to continue. Well until everything grinds to a halt as history's proven it always does.
Only light on the hill, and there is one starting to show, is the move away from major parties we're seeing in the poles. More and more are feeling burned with their plans shredded by the monolith and they're realising their representatives really aren't.
Posted by jamo, Monday, 29 May 2017 11:42:17 PM
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"Home schooling" is about protecting one's children from being indoctrinated and brainwashed by the state and its values.

Having accepted democracy, the author already affirms the "right" of states to control our lives, which includes what values we teach our children and what bad values we shield them from.

Trying to get the state to behave a bit more nicely and orderly, is tinkering around the edges.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Monday, 29 May 2017 11:55:44 PM
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Jamo, with the current rates that laws, by-laws, regulations and such gets rammed through the various state/territory & Federal parliaments, Australia has become the most (over) regulated/legislated country amongst the common law, Westminster System governments in the world.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/welcome-to-australia-the-worlds-most-overregulated-nanny-state/news-story/49aa0a414ae87b9ef54e85b40af36b47

We apparently now rate as No 2 in being litigious, not bad for a small country.

http://www.abc2c.com.au/australia-comes-second-in-being-litigious
Posted by Albie Manton in Darwin, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 11:12:17 AM
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Yuyutsu, children are human beings and nobody - not parents, not the state, not this or that religious body, has a God-given right to deprive them of access to whatever ideas they choose to explore and consider. Taxpayers should never have been dunned to provide aid to private religious schools which are geared to theocratic indoctrination.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 3:10:01 PM
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with the complete dumbing down of state schools one would almost have to consider it child abuse to send their kids there. So glad my wife homeschooled our children for a few years before having to face the barrage of indoctrination by the 'elite'. Whether it be the absolute evolution fantasy, gw fraud or being told babies born with a penis might be a girl, I and am very glad these twits have not managed to brainwash my kids.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 3:44:09 PM
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Dear Julian,

So long as a child is unable to express their wishes clearly, nobody can better represent and be a mouth for the child's own wishes than their parents.
Once the child has grown sufficiently to express their wishes themselves, then it's only up to the child herself, including which influences they wish to be exposed to and which influences they rather be shielded from.

Regarding taxpayers' money, I could not agree more.
However, no taxpayers' money should anyway be given toward ANY form of indoctrination, including in public schools.
And in any case, it is shameful and irreligious to touch such tainted stolen money that was taken from others by force.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 3:46:57 PM
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