An excellent article.
It is a great pity that we don't have strong leaders with vision.

A dreadful article the sentiments of which are the problem with Australia. The author's praise for Rudd and Gillard is beyond comprehension. Both these incompetents ruined Australia's economy wracking up a debt of nearly $300 billion for no lasting benefit. In Rudd's case his and Swan's policies during the GFC were both unnecessary and stupid; see:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=15130

As for Gillard, she should face criminal charges, see:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=14428

Gillard also oversaw the Finkelstein enquiry, the single greatest threat to free speech in this country's history.

The author praises renewable energy and in particular solar energy. Solar energy has ruined Spain and is not being utilised in any country in the world to supply grid power.

Solar power [an oxymoron] and renewable energy generally does not work because it is unreliable and intermittent, 2 different and insurmountable problems; it is that simple. I wish this were not the case but it is.

Renewable energy can never work. If battery storage capacity increases and the capacity to store for a wet day or the night occurs the problem still remains you cannot use power twice; if you are storing the solar or wind power for use during the night you can't use it during the day.

Globally trillions have been wasted on wind and solar energy; that is money which could have been spent elsewhere. This is a terrible waste and scandal.

The only reason renewable energy has been supported is because governments like the previous Rudd and Gillard governments were so stupid and weak and were dominated by Green fanaticism.

Australia is great because of its political and economic structure which allow a free society. All of this requires cheap and plentiful energy. The Greens want to stop this and have used the propaganda of AGW to promote their insidious schemes. This has been classic watermelonism and this article is an example of it

It is a great pity that we don't have strong leaders with vision.
Raise the Dust,
The Goaf made sure of that for the next few decades.

While the artilce is full of error's, cohenite's tard has turned our atention to he/she/it fact free rant instead.

This author asks what’s gone wrong with Australia, and then champions the very things that have caused the problems! She:

Attacks fossil fuels – cheap energy that once made Australia competitive, and therefore is against one of the few things that still creates wealth and growth in Australia.

Instead if “kowtowing” to “mining magnates” she thinks we should kowtow to aborigines for nothing we have done.

Barracks for Rudd and Gillard.

Believes in a stupid and costly (to us) tax on carbon dioxide.

Likes a tax extra taxing on wealth and job creation (mining).

Thinks we have plenty of room here of “refugees” to come as they please.

Tells us we should change the character of our ethos to cater for homosexuals instead of just letting them get along with their lives and accepting them. Institutionalise homosexuality.

Then, there is that terrible Captain Cook and convicts, and stupidly makes a crack about turning boats back at the time of settlement.

Because she probably believes in such nonsense, she hasn’t mentioned another blow to Australia – multiculturalism and the multicultural industry, which has riven Australian society, and was forced on us by a rotten politician.

Sorry, laughing so hard that I don't know where to start