The worst government in living memory?

This opinion is a subjective one.

Many would suggest the Abbott Government as the worst
government in living history.

Abbott sailed in on the back of an unelectable ALP crippled
by their internal strife and unable to govern.

He traded on slogans, fear
(stop the boats - terrorists everywhere) and unashamed pandering
to corporate media and interests as well as religious interests.

He became a laughing stock in both international circles and
domestically with the Prince Philip knighthood.

He managed to prove every one of his critics right. Abbott and
most of his frontbenchers were prepared to ride roughshod
over the Constitution, international treaties, human rights,
and the rule of law if it served their or their vested
backers' interests.

Abbott's government was out of step with moderate Australia.
We can only hope that at the next
election moderates on all sides of politics can come together
for the future of our nation - instead of allowing the
radical and dysfunctional members
to continue selling our country to the highest bidder.

Hi Paul,
"An attempt to deflect criticism that the Labor government is pro Palestinian, which it defiantly is not."
Of course they're not.
The fact they openly have a riff with a Muslim female senator over the issue shows they have other loyalties to consider.

"I can't understand how so many people are dismissive of the deaths of 40,000 innocent men, women and children in Gaza at the hands of the Zionists."
- Years from now, people in the future will look back at and study these events, and ask themselves why on earth did the western world and its people which claimed to promote and support humanitarian ideals just stand by and do nothing?
- Powerful Israel lobby, stupid evangelicals giving silent consent / support, gutless bought-and-paid-for media, and above all:

A stupid idea that has virtually become a religion unto itself.
Should detecting and identifying 'Antisemitism' now be considered a religion all of its own?
A universal law that bans all criticism of a single nation and people.

It's retarded.
What if I created a new religion that was focused around the idea of non criticism of television?

'anti-television'

Anytime anyone gets angry at something on the TV, I will say 'You're anti-television!'.

And I'll go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on FOREVER

Until people are mentally trained that you just DON'T EVER EVER EVER CRITICISE TELEVISION.

- Quick everyone, lay on the ground in the fetal position and try not to pee yourselves.
Daring to criticise the genociders might be considered antisemitic!
And don't you all know THATS WRONG?

Education is key to be able to tell the difference
between fact and fiction. But if you happen to have
a small screen - you'll never be able to see the bigger
picture. Unfortunately.

The problem with education is it makes some think they have all the answers, and therefore they have the right to tell others what to do!

We're all entitled to informed opinions. Opinions
based on facts. Evidence-based. We're not entitled to
ill-informed opinions. Nobody is entitled to be ignorant.

In business they say that even if a business looks good on paper you have to listen to your gut.

In democracy people have a right to decide what they believe is in their self interest even if some authority says that they are wrong.

Ben Goldacre says that authority is the weakest form of evidence because it's so easily faked.

Animal's and human's have an evolved finely tuned sense of danger, sometimes human's rely too much on logic. Both are important. Ethos (ethics), logos (reason), telos (purpose), pathos (feeling) are Aristotle's forms of argument from memory.

Education and academics can revert to scientism. Science is descriptive without ethics.

The Academy has been corrupted by Marxism and 'useful idiot' Woke-ism- and replaced 'free inquiry' with 'political correctness'.

Evidence is important in certain contexts- but it seems to be less relevant in our kangaroo courts.