Armchair Critic,
Your words are worth repeating

"You know you're right ttbn, this country really is too far gone.
And sure it may be one of the best countries in the world but everyone else wanted to ignore us when we said we're heading strait down the path other destroyed countries have travelled and that we continue to follow makes us 100 times more stupid to ruin the place AFTER we see whats happened to other countries.

And for those who think we whinge, we just actually cared about the place that you all wanted to ruin in you do-gooder ignorance.
Now its every man for himself, this country is barely worth fighting for anymore.
Its a losing battle".

ttbn and leoj. I also agree with what you say.

The rot started in the 70s with Whitlam, Grassby and continued on with Frasser and Howard. This was their high immigration policies and Multiculturalism where they only wanted diversity instead of insisting on benefits to Aus.

Howard could have stopped MC but simply stopped using the word and the policy remained. Same with Abbott, but at least Abbott did one good thing, he stopped the invasion of the illegals. Now we have a PM with Labor ideas and we saw what Rudd and Gillard did to the country.

Like you ttbn, I am glad I am old so I wont see the outcome of the folly of these fools that our grand children will inherit.

The present lot are too stupid to even see the current situation in Europe, which is staring them in the face.

My heart bleeds for our grand children

Here is another perspective on the subject of
our country:

http://thecoversation.com/is-australia-as-bad-as-is-skewed-criticism-may-leave-you-wondering-40825

cont'd ...

Another typo. My apologies here's the link again:

http://theconversation.com/is-australia-as-bad-as-is-skewed-criticism-may-leave-you-wondering-40825

Dear Critic,

«You know you're right ttbn, this country really is too far gone.»

"
And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
"

[Jonah 4:6-11]

Foxy please stop directing us to lefty/communist propaganda websites.

It spoils my day to realise there are people in Oz naïve enough to fall for that garbage.

Foxy & others,
The lifetime of our resources is not all that has to be
considered. We are already past world peak coal.
Many countries will be wanting to buy our reserves.
Quote Chinese Premier.
"We will burn all our own coal then burn all yours."

Shell Oil is preparing to wind down.
They can see that to explore and develop resources is too low ERoEI.

Too many do not take ERoEI into their consideration.