J Ramsay Sutherland

I wonder if the politicians are actually factoring in what’s best for Australia when debating who should form government?

At the outset of this Federal poll, I was largely unsympathetic towards the Labour party after what they did to Kevin Rudd. So I think I can weigh into this debate with a fairly unbiased view on the matter.

On balance, the Labour party is the best outcome for this country right now.

For one they will provide the stability of incumbency – especially given they’ve only served one term. And let’s face it – both sides have moved so close to the centre there’s barely any difference between the two. Even Treasury’s costings showed negligible demonstrated. So why not stay with the party in power for the time being at least?

Secondly, Julia Giilard has a track record for negotiating outcomes. Whichever side gets in – this is a vital leadership skill.

Finally, a disparate coalition of players that represent the broad church of citizens in this country will best serve our country.

Miranda Devine hits the nail on the head of what could well be the nail in the coffin for the Australian Labour Party in today’s federal election: “the faceless men” (News Review, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August, 2010, page 9).

“Win, lose or draw, the unscrupulous gamble by Labour’s factional and union heavies to remove a democratically elected prime minister eight weeks ago and rush to an election has not been a triumph for Labour or Julia Gillard.”

But it is not just the “faceless men” of Labour … it is all such “men” of any political persuasion that horrify me in their power and ability to ride rough shod over the entire democratic process that we have fought wars to retain.

These power brokers provide the incendiary material for leaders’ speeches, catering for democracy at its lowest possible level. They make it their business to bamboozle readers who have only reached a reading age of eleven by couching their message in words of more than one syllable.

I have been subject to being robbed via credit card to the tune of $5000 over a perod of three hours in the early hours of the morning, while I was sleeping,
What ever other plagues and misfortunes take place in the world this must come in the same category as fire and murder. It is more frightening than either as there is no visble sign or sound and only for the fact that I was informed that it had happened I was completely unaware,
Inside my house, locked up and secure, I was ravaged by faceless robots. the implements of carefree “gamers”.

JRamsay Sutherland

I have been away for a while. But now I am back. I see religion has become the topic -de-jour in the lettes to the editor. The Pope is taking a beating. However, if one takes a look at his former life as cardinal Ratzinger he was an uncompromising supporter of the church of his faith to maintain a protective wall around it. He played hardball. It may be that it has all turned around andbitten him. That is rather a mixture of metaphors, but you can see what I mean

So we have a new Prime Minister!
Here in Australia we have managed it without riots in the streets, barricades or smoke bombs.
On the other hand we have turned Parliament into a professional class where young graduates, or even before that, become interns to someone in Head Office, a union, or a sitting member until they are regarded as having moved through the ranks in required loyalty, to be selected to stand in some lectorates when the time comes.
Unfortunately the propsed candidate might not even live in the electorate for which the candidate has been given the call.
Our Prime Minister now is the chairman of the boards and the shareholders have as much control as in any other company.

It must be the season when the media, for lack fo shock-horror, have disclosed, not a new scandal but an old one clothed in all its new glory of Papal robes. The information concerning clerical child abuse has around for a long time, and kept simmering with accounts of court cases and muted references of priest being moved on to new parishes. Now the hierarchy has been pushed onto the front pages and the opinion pages and the letter-pages.
But let’s face it, the Roman Catholic Church would not be the only religious institution beset with this guilt, forced on the inniocent as necessary for adherence to any particular faith.

The NSW Government whether it is party in power now or the would-be ruling party present an image of democracy as a products as puppets of ousie interests with greed and and nepotism as the driving force.
In the newspapers there are clues to the cliques with questionable connections. The business pages are prime souces of the questionable practices at other peoples expense. The philosophy driving it all that there is a fool every minute.
On the other hand are thhose who carry the banner of their right to make the rules for everybody elses according their own narrow outlook on life.
We need people to govern us who have clear vision of a better society for all, caring, upright and honest.
The trrouble is that the majority of the people cannot see the point of paying for the running of the State when the governing party is a ponzi orgaanisation!!