Wherever there is easy money to be made, there is corruption. It goes on at every level of Government: local, State and Federally. It occurs in the Police Force, the judiciary, the MSM, even among clerics and, dare I say it, lawyers.

The problems is that greed has been elevated to iconic status. We are conditioned to envy those who have big mansions and luxury motor yachts and power. We are taught that winners are grinners and we all must do whatever it takes to join them or be classed as failures.

A world based upon greed is a sick world. Few are advantaged. The rest pay the price.

My blog has a photograph of a man being tortured as part of the CIA rendition program which Australia is a part of (click on the house symbol at the bottom of this post to check it out).

You may not be so worried about NSW corruption anymore.

There are bigger fish to fry!

Runner, there are plenty of shonks who are also Christians. I well remember my father attending a meeting at which one pompous gentle proclaimed himself to be a "Christian businessman" whereapon dad was heard to retort "And a rogue to boot". And he wasn't wrong either.

David

runner
Which of the Greens policies do you find morally bereft. I await your enlightening comments.

VK3AUU,

'Runner, there are plenty of shonks who are also Christians '

no arguement with me there VK3AUU. The difference is they have a moral basis that lets them know they are shonks. Moral relativist don't hence the putried corruption that is uncovered in sport and politics where wrong is know called right and vice versa.

When you really look at it Labor is simply saturated with many little dictators. The only good thing is they are just that, little ! The sad thing is that they totally lack competence. If only we could somehow make them benevolent.

runner your point is a side issue but in my experience christains are some of the best at not knowing that they are corrupt or at writing their failings off to an already fallen nature thankfully forgiven.

I think the world view you express fail to acknowledges the role human choice plays in determining which parts of a thiestic belief system are taken seriously and which are not. There are believers who treat their beliefs as a call to living a life of decency and honesty, for others those are a pretence which is useful to fool others.

On the broader topic, I think the author is using the piece to advocate for a shift to the left more than genuninely addressing ethics and values in politics or else where. I've not seen any reason to believe the left is any less susceptible to corruption than any other part of politics. There is a common human trait from the fringes to believe that the problem does not really exist amongst the tue believers (who ever they may be) and that any abberations are not really true believers. If someone on my side plays up they ar an abberation, if its someone from the other side thats typical of what you would expect.

R0bert