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A warning: those headaches are about to get a whole lot worse : Comments

By Alice Gallen, published 8/3/2018

A new generation hooked on technology has given up on democracy and shut the door to civil discussion, instead choosing hate, defensiveness and extreme solutions.

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Aidan,

Your comments suggest that you are an idiot.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:53:51 AM
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Alice you specifically brought up asylum seekers and a solution. You, of course, meant craven surrender, well done. Dear rich and clueless Alice remind us how many countries those poor people came through to get to Centrelink. With a mind like yours you are always going to have problems.
I wonder about the real identity of "Alice".
Posted by JBowyer, Thursday, 8 March 2018 12:46:22 PM
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So the young liberals want a more open sharing society.

To paraphrase Maggi, The problem with sharing societies is what to do when the would be sharers run our of other peoples money to share.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 8 March 2018 1:03:34 PM
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Sad but true Alice? But not entirely the fault of young people but generations of thoughtless visionless Leaders who spruiked individualism and essentially that greed was good as they proved by selling/mortgaging our young people's heritage!?

And acted to put the great Australian dream of home ownership into the past? Put even the cost of rental housing out of the reach of the less well off, who regularly turn up in sand dunes and underbridges and what have you?

Only common during the last Great Depression!

Decisions need to be made! Some of which will likely be unpopular with childless baby boomers! Who may take extreme umbrage as they see the overinflated value of their property holdings deflate!

An essential to put affordable housing back on the nation's agenda!

Just don't expect the current government to do it nor the current opposition. Both like rabbits caught/frozen in the spotlight, when asked to actually lead and persuade with impassioned courage of conviction!

Let's face it, it's so much easier to serve wealthy, powerful, vested special interest and the bank balance, than the nation? No names no packdrill.

But we are all but surrounded by credible examples of that problem? Some of which could be outed by a strenuously resisted federal ICAC?

WE need to streamline and rationalize government and the funding of health, education, disability and government itself. To claw back the annual billions these corporate cowboys routinely waste? No names no pack drill.

But some of this is as obvious and the nose on your face and the equally obvious, but resisted to the last polie, solutions?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 8 March 2018 4:49:10 PM
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ttbn writing about the "spiritual side" of life.
What a hoot?
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 8 March 2018 7:18:19 PM
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ttbn
I agree with your comment, that a failure to teach history,not hippie ideology and a constant harping on the holocaust, with no mention of the millions killed by the muslim
and Japanese Empires. Plus the ethnic cleansing of many African tribes by the Zulus
in earlier African times leaves Western uni students walking around with guilt about the British Empire and other Ethnic groups walking around as though they are as white and pure as snow. Niether side knowing much about history, because it would be too politically incorrect, to teach anything that might offend other ethnicities,

And especially the ethnic groups who prop up Western universities with billions of dollars profit..
This in the end amounts to the dumbing down and lack of understanding of the real world and is a very good reason why our universities should be funded by our western governments instead of foreign money in the form of overseas students.
Because of a fear of offending and losing profits it means history is glossed over and omitted in the name of politcal oorrectness, It is however alright to teach the down side of Western History, because Western students dont have to leave their country to study in overseas universities so the universities are guaranteed the money from Western students. So Western students in the name of political correctness can be bashed over and over with the so called sins of the British Empire and Holocaust.
Japanese,muslim, or African students would never be subjected to the bloody history of their own countries ad nauseum.
utube had a video on that put the idea forward that todays western generation walk around like people with amnesia because they have no real understanding of history and so they can be fooled by things they are told.
Posted by CHERFUL, Thursday, 8 March 2018 8:35:07 PM
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