otb,

My working life has been vast and varied.
Don't make assumptions about people you
don't know (or ever will). You're out
of your league.

BTW - my previous post was addressed to
Individual - not you, and it regarded HIS
working experience.

cont'd ...

BTW: For your information - it's
Individual who's always been very critical
of the public service in his past posts.
Had you have known that perhaps you'd have
realised I was being facetious - and having
a go at him. But as Poirot says - you just
can't help yourself as far as I'm concerned.
You've got to keep repeating your little
mantra about "dogmatism" - woof, woof!

Lucky me!

Foxy,

You could wriggle out of anything and turn the blame on someone else.

You could be ex-PM Julia Whatshername's mini-me.

otb,

Thank You for the great compliment.
I admired our previous PM very much.
She had the characteristics that are
necessary in a PM, such as initiative,
leadership, negotiating ability, willingness
to take risks, and persuasiveness.

I'm so flattered that I remind you of her.

Funny though - you don't remind me of anyone
(past or present) that I've ever come across.
But then I don't frequent the police-courts
very often.

Rehctub,

The underlying element of your last post was to complain. That was obvious. Making simplistic comments doesn't help either.

It's like saying certain governments worldwide do certain things and then putting Australia into that category.

People who want to put 'all into one basket' - its a very clever debating technique to avoid the topic "Too many people complain in Australia".

But I'm not going be distracted by this attitude - I'm going to keep advocating for positive change - and working towards changing the mindset of many Australian people - simply that we DO live in a lucky country, when you look at poor, war torn and third world countries.

We need to help each other more and not constantly BLAME government or people for everything - unless there is strong case to do so.

Dear Nathan,

You're absolutely spot on.

Peter Costello pointed out in his Memoirs:

"We do have many unsolved problems in this country -
especially addressing Indigenous disadvantage and
dealing with the structure of our federalism.
We must deal with those to move forward as a free,
fair and vibrant society."

"I have no doubt we can find the solutions that suit us,
provided we don't succumb to the siren calls of
demagogues, charlatans and ideologues."

The achievements of the past decades have laid an
extraordinary foundation. Properly preserved and built on,
we now have oportunities we never had before in Australia's
history. The best years for our country are still in
front of us.