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By John Töns, published 16/7/2009Where have all the political leaders gone? Where are all the visionaries?
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Australians are bogged to the axles, incapable of even getting out of the relaxed, comfortable vehicle to do something about it.
We trot out the bland because they are 'safe' to vote into the serial niches of progressive power - from mousy local councillors to our bureaucrat-mouthed prime minister. Our media sensationalises everything to sell advertising so a metaphoric willy waved in the wrong direction brings a storm of censure for a misdemeanour that once would have been ignored as barely newsworthy.
As the notion of public interest changes from fostering participative democracy to promulgating voyeurism, so the politicians who serve that public interest move from principled firebrands to faceless suits embroiled in petty pursuits.