Who the hell chooses the recipients of The Australian of the Year, & how the hell did they get the job.

The choices become more ludicrous each year, & it is becoming embarrassing.

Dear Hasbeen,

The following link may help:

http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/

To what exactly do you object?
You'll have to be more specific.
The link I gave you states that The Board of the
National Australia Day Council make up the national
selection panel. They provide direction to the selection
committee about the technical aspects of the selection
process, criteria and the like,
as well as providing a national perspective
on the selection process.

State and territory selection panels aim to reflect Australia's
diversity and they endeavour to include representatives
with varying cultural backgrounds, Indigenous Australians,
Young people, women, people from rural and remote areas
and people who come from a wide range of fields of endeavour.

Please explain just what your objections are.

That was my whole point Foxy. Who selects the Board of the
National Australia Day Council.

With an Ozzie rules playing thug as their last choice, after a run of ratbags & nobodies, I can only assume the board was chosen by a bunch of Rudd/Gillard types, trying to make us look as stupid as possible.

If the list I saw recently of state people, it is time to drop the lot, to avoid any further embarrassment.

Dear Hasbeen,

I'm sorry you feel that way.

I think that they do an excellent job.

Of course you can't please everyone -
no matter who you are.

The reason why the process is a farce is that it follows the drive, decreed by social engineers and based "identity politics", of fragmenting Australia into a collection of "groups" rather than a nation of free human beings guided by Enlightenment values. The defined "groups" are controlled by authoritarian "leaders" and the effect of this fragmentation, under an umbrella of political correctness, is to trivialise our nation and consequently the "Australian of the Year" title.

@EmperorJulian,

Superficially at least there does seem to be a heap of political considerations in the selections. Enough to wonder if one day some bright spark might run a book on the likely characteristics of the successful State and Territory choices and on the final outcome.

There does seem to be a heck of a lot of 'guiding' of public opinion by government and its agencies. The dead hand of government, or is political correctness so embedded that we all respond, and we are certain we will be firmly castigated and penalised if we don't?

Thinking of government though in this case it doesn't have a direct hand in the selections, should the government be molding public opinion to what it wants, or should the government be molding its policies to what the public want? The pendulum does seem to have swung abruptly to the first, ie., government informing the public on how they must think and act. Not democracy, but the elites and lobbyists are not concerned about that.