Has that well worn Aussie term died? work till you are 70, tax cuts for the richest no rise in pensions? casual work not full time jobs? what type of a society are we building? what type do we want? housing in our city's, not one worse than Sydney seems to exile many from living in them? why? what happened to fair go mate? is being poor or even less well off a crime worthy of punishment?

Unless our Governments stop spending money the future generations could well know what poverty is. More waste for education to make people dumber, more for childcare contributing to breaking up families and more to the rogue renewables industry. We certainly are not the smart country and future generations should the Lord allow the planet to survive that long not be happy with us. We should have no debt, cheap electricity and be able to teach kids to read and write. Since Rudd came to power we have failed miserably. And to think people cheered him on!

Dear Belly,

This kind of speaks to how we used to see ourselves as different to the US. The balance between individual rights and equity is something we always thought we had better than the US. Medicare, free education, a progressive taxation system, fair employment laws, decent union representation, a strong and independent public broadcaster, were all things we felt set us apart.

Now all of them have either been substantially degraded or are under threat.

We use to take pride in the word egalitarian, now most people would struggle to tell you what it meant.

So yes I think we have lost our way and it will take some effort to push back against those forces determined for us to become the 51st state.

Dear Belly,

A few decades ago according to an article in the
Sydney Morning Herald - our nation was economically
insular, weighed down by protectionism, overregulation,
and chronic inflation. A treasurer famously warned
we would become a banana republic.

However, by giving more play to market
forces as the most reliable generator of wealth,
Labor and Coalition governments transformed the way we did
business. From the interventionist mindset that delivered
genuine turmoil in the 1970s we moved to an era of sounder
policy and more durable prosperity.

Just think how the old Australia - the over-regulated,
inflation-prone country of the 1970s would have coped with
the GFC of 2008-2009. The lesson: good policy really matters.

Nothing lasts forever. And its true the
socioeconomic transformation of recent decades has led
to painful adjustment for the loss of globalisation and
rapid technological change. Then again, the same forces
that have bred this insecurity, both at home and abroad,
cannot be stopped. Re-regulating the economy or kicking
out immigrants won't solve problems.
Adaptation and innovation will, according to the
Sydney Morning Herald.

The article tells us that disruption is the new norm across
business, politics, and culture.
As Campbell Soup Chief Executive Denise Morrison
has put it:

"You can either lead change or be a victim of it.
Now is the time for leaders."

Well I am 72 years old, truly feel half that, but saw a far better Australia than today's,what are we a country? community? hopefully both, and why is caring and sharing what we have wrong? is it wealth creation for some at the cost of poverty for others all the way? not calling for socialism, it seems to make people and economy's slothful, but surely a tax system that fairly taxes all, one that funds a bottom,America PTY LTD is no longer a country to mimic, it has not been from Trumps first day,how do humans however justifie people living on the streets while others live like royalty we no longer use the fair go mate demand and too many do not even agree with it

Some people say the notion of a 'fair go’ was always a myth. I don’t see that it matters, particularly now when the people controlling us hate themselves as much as they hate us. We are told we 'racists’’, 'Islamophobes’, 'homophobes’, 'too white', 'too privileged’, and so on. Why would we worry about a 'fair go’ with all that crap being thrown at us.

“What sort of society are we building”? There is nothing being built. The elites and the Marxists wreckers are tearing society to pieces. If anything is being built, it is a collectivist utopia where everyone but the elites have an equal share in nothing