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Sympathy for the dodgy salesmen of Australian politics : Comments
By Zac Alstin, published 13/6/2012The real change in recent years is that Australian politics is running out of passionate causes.
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I work passionately for the severely mentally ill. But I didn't until I lived with my daughter's mental illness and subsequent suicide. I understand it is a subject most people are sorry for but not passionate about. We need more whistle-blowers to inform of us of the tragic truth of the bottom layers of society. Who knows that we have some 650,000 severely mentally ill? Who knows that we give essential care and treatment to only some 250,000? Hundreds of thousands of family and friends, of course. How do we unite to shout FIX THIS? All our governments know these figures; they have all made informed decisions to spend our money on more important matters than saving lives. We might feel differently if we were presented with ethical and just governance.