It appears that quite a few people are expressing
united opinions about the current government
in the traditional way of - you guessed it - by protesting:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/16/anarchists-and-babies-and-all-in-between-gather-to-march-in-march

Through collective action, ordinary people with few
resources other then their own determination can bring
about change. History has shown us that once people
no longer take their world for granted, but instead understand
the social authorship of their lives and futures, they can
become an irresistible force in history.

Families, children, students, academics, are all getting
this message - as we saw from the marches on Sunday.

Hey Foxy sweetie, I reckon those marches had just one objective. That was to try to take the media spotlight off the catastrophic defeat of Labor & the Greens in Tasmania.

That result tell us what the majority of the public think of the left parties, & their government.

A few thousand people wandering the streets, & a large chunk of them having very ugly minds, going by the disgusting signage they carried, didn't say much for the movement.

Hi all,

Sorry about my earlier link. It should have been this one;

http://youtu.be/fUryKmSZwuQ

And you should have a look too Hasbeen, this is what you and your demographic get served up to them on a nightly basis. It is no wonder our young rightly look to other places for their news and views. It is you lot who are the white and woolly.

Dear runner,

I thought these kids were showing some very authentic Christian values such as speaking out for the oppressed in their society, concerned about those in prison, and condemning the ongoing degradation of God's creation. Being a Paulian rather than a Christian you may just have a little trouble seeing it.

Yes, runner....one imagines Christ would be supporting those school kids standing up for the oppressed we shunt back out to sea.

Or do you reckon Christ would be cheering this sort of thing on?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-17/asylum-seekers-give-details-on-operation-sovereign-borders/5326546

Dear Hassie,

It apparently was not just a few thousand demonstrating
around Australia - but as the link I cited tells us, it
was tens of thousands which does indicate that there is
a problem.

The Vietnam war came to an end largely as a result of the
antiwar movement, a social movement that consisted
disproportionately of young people, including many college
students, especially in the US. When the anti-war movement
first challenged the war, it received little support
from politicians or the press, and its goals seemed
almost hopeless. But the tide of public opinion gradually
began to shift.

In the 1968 presidential primaries in the US, an antiwar
candidate backed by student volunteers did unexpectedly
well and President Johnson decided not to run for
re-election. From that point on, political debate on the
war focused not on how to stay in it, but on how to get
out of it.

Through collective action, ordinary people with few resources
other than their own determination had changed a national
consensus for war to a national consensus for peace.

This simply illustrates as I mentioned earlier that
once people no longer take their world for granted, but
instead understand the social authorship of their lives
and futures, they can become an irresistible force in
history.

Any comparison with the Vietnam protest movement is a false analogy.

The election results for Tasmania and South Australia are facts that are uncomfortable for the Greens especially and also for Labor.