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By Bruce Haigh, published 19/3/2008Why was the public service so ineffectual in the face of an aggressively ideological Howard government?
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the australian people don't deserve anything better, any more than sheep in a paddock deserve a jacuzzi. they let themselves be ruled by a group of people who demonstrate no claim to sainthood, but merely claim to be less bad than the other mob.
"you get the government you deserve", if you vote for it.
the quality of the government is an accurate reflection of the national character: faced with the choice of one from two gangs of grifters, they do choose, and go back to the racing guide for another three years. the oz intelligentsia, aptly styled 'chatterati', talks on but being powerless and inexperienced, never thinks to suggest a better system. learn from the past? this is the mob that listened to joh b-p say "don't you worry about that!" for 20 years. all they learned was that politics was not for the likes of them.