I believe our representatives should be people from various industries and services who employ at least ten people under them. Without knowledge of employment and industries and services, we are not adequately represented. There are to many second rate lawyers and self appointed hacks who have no idea of the needs of industries and employment. Leaders of industry and services have the best ideas of needs and employment. The idea that anyone can be a politician is nonsense. This leads to the lowest common denominator, because they have the best oratory skills.

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Dear David f.,

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You indicate :

« I belong to the Greens. We are not supported by big money or unions. We have many discussions of policy in which the opinions of all members are welcome … Have you taken the trouble to get acquainted with any of the Australian political parties ? … »
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At the last count, David, I understand there are 27 political parties in Australia. I value my freedom too highly to swear allegiance to any one political party. I prefer to do what I can in complete independence, as little and insignificant as that may happen be.

Ideas have no frontiers. If I ever have an original idea, it doesn’t matter when, where or how I express it, it will travel. If others have the same idea, I don’t need to express it. They will. Then, if it is adopted, what I will have wanted to achieve will have been achieved – without my having to utter a single word.

I learned that from my competitors. They were always quick to copy the few original ideas I had during my professional life. The rest was common knowledge.

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Dear ttbn,

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I asked :

« … wouldn’t it be better for us to vote on the legislation they propose – and fix the rules ourselves ? »

And you replied :

« Fair question. Easy answer - no one. Australia is rooted »
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I must confess your “Easy answer” leaves me somewhat perplex, ttbn. I have difficulty working out who or what the “no one” refers to.

Do you mean that “no one” should fix the rules, and there should be no rules in Australia, the reason being that as you consider that “Australia is rooted” it doesn’t need any rules ?

If so, that’s a pretty pessimistic position, ttbn, and a rather anarchistic one at that, if you don't mind my saying so.

That said, I would be interested to hear who you think the revolutionary rapist was.

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There is a strain in society that distrusts the intellectual
david f,
You've hit the nail on the head. The intellectuals en masse have morphed into a self admiration crowd rather than solve society's challenges. They're hugely economically unproductive & simply unviable.
The handful of REAL educated professionals & scientists are always referred to in debates as a distraction. The actual number of intellectuals on the public purse vs the economic benefits is never disclosed because if it were, Education would be closed down.
Why do you think the Goaf got into Govt ? He got rid of our national Service which appealed hugely to the snowflake brigade of the 70's & replaced it with an intellectual gravy train without responsibilities for them. No brakes were designed into this train that just keeps on rolling at the expense of the masses in private enterprise not from the economic returns from the intellectuals !

There is a strain in society that distrusts the intellectual
david f,
You've hit the nail on the head. The intellectuals en masse have morphed into a self admiration crowd rather than solve society's challenges. They're hugely economically unproductive economically simply unviable.
The handful of REAL educated professionals & scientists are always referred to in debates as a distraction. The actual number of intellectuals on the public purse vs the economic benefits is never disclosed because if it were, Education would be closed down.
Why do you think the Goaf got into Govt ? He got rid of our national Service which appealed hugely to the snowflake brigade of the 70's & replaced it with an intellectual gravy train without responsibilities for them. No brakes were designed into this train that just keeps on rolling at the expense of the masses in private enterprise not from the economic returns from the intellectuals !

Well, given that anyone can seek to be selected, you cant do much than vote for those who front up.

That is democracy

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Dear Chris Lewis,

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You wrote :

« Anyone with any logic could have seen advantage of masks »
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Right, but there were no masks in France at the outbreak of the pandemic and it took a while for people to realise that the experts’ recommendations were not based on science but on politics.

People started to try to make their own masks as best they could with whatever material they could find and, realising its mistake, the government frantically sought to import as many masks as it could from China at exorbitant prices.

The Americans hijacked one planeload of masks destined for France by paying three times the price France had agreed to pay.

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Dear Josephus,

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You wrote :

« I believe our representatives should be people from various industries and services who employ at least ten people under them. Without knowledge of employment and industries and services, we are not adequately represented »
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That sounds like good sense. I hope your message reaches the ears of the prime minister.

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