It appears to me the time is right for a discussion on exactly where Australia is headed. One gets the distinct impression that few people are overjoyed with the direction in which our politicians are taking us (or are 'pretending to), although its questionable whether or not they actually hold the strings. Many believe there is a humungous financial re-alignment looming, but are the powers that be attempting to prevent or encourage this event .... or are they merely choosing to ignore what they can't fix ?? Then there is all this new world order business, what with the Bilderbergs, depopulation, chemtrails and so on. How much of that crap is halfway factual and how much is foisted on the unsuspecting sheeple in order to send them up a dry gully (thus diverting their attention from whats REALLY going on ??

What ever views others have, if they are not yours, you will use words of heat to answer in any case.
So why bother?
How ever for a small payment, you can update your insults in most book shops.

Praxicide,
It's all of the things you've stated, we live behind the iron curtain of an empire so no information in the public domain can be trusted.
Where is Australia going? I doesn't matter, we'll either quickly follow the Western empire into oblivion or be the last outpost of it's dead ideas and culture, we'll be to the West what Cuba is to the Soviet Union.

Dear Prax.,

I know that you're against "the system,"
however I haven't lost my faith in it
quite yet, although I can't predict what
the future will bring.

I do know that no
matter who's in government we can always
replace them if we don't like what they're
doing and that's not a bad system. At least
we have that capability in this country.
Unlike some others around the globe.

We are in critical times though, and this country
requires strong leadership and politicians
who belong to a different parliamentary
tradition to the one we seem to have
currently.

We need politicians who want to go into
politics for the right reasons. We need
politicians who care for this country and its
people. We need politicians who want to make a
difference and are not in it for the power or personal
ambition at all costs (the destructive kind).

At present all we can
do is try to remain optimistic, and fingers-crossed
that the voters will get it right in the end at
the next election.

Dear Lexi

Being able to replace bad politicians is all very well if there are viable alternatives. Its a foregone conclusion that the federal ALP is on the way out, but given the Queensland experience, one can but hope the sheeple don't make exactly the same mistake again. Both the ALP & the LNP have a well engrained 'born to rule' complex that effectively cancels out any resdidual semblance of accountability. There is of course the potentially hostile senate and KAP / PUP votes will at least fragment LNP support & even possibly / hopefully provide a halfway meaningful opposition.

Crossing ones fingers & wishful thinking are hardly good ways to run a political system. Human nature being naturally corrupt, people with authority will inevitably fail to live up to the standards we expect of them, consequently there is a need for extremely robust control mechanisms. Clearly those mechanisms have been systematically & intentionally eroded to the point where accountability is merely a word in the dictionary.

When an unaccountable political system is combined with globalism, multiculturalism, consumerism & expectations of never-ending economic growth, we have a disaster just waiting to happen. Unfortunately under the present arrangements, the culprits are not only in a position to escape the consequences of their actions scot free, but they are handsomely rewarded by their victims. I guess that ultimately, when the brown stuff really hits the fan in earnest, karma will eventually take effect and sort out the wrong-doers big time.

Where exactly IS this country heading ??

Way past the sign post that says the lucky country ?