“People curious about the current state of Australia ….” are few.

“Exhaustion”? Cowardice and apathy is more likely. Australians have succumbed to grey-suited Marxism.

The lack of will/backbone/apathy to fight the political class has resulted in the accurate dot points at the bottom of Page 1.

Democracy survives only when its beneficiaries take an active part in it.

Werner, you refer to "A perceived sense of a loss of meaning".

Most people in the West are functional atheists.

Many are beginning to realise that should atheism/materialism be true, then life really is meaningless.

The greater the sense of the meaninglessness of life, the more everything else falls apart.

The most important question that must be addressed then is, is atheism/materialism true or not?