Who is the target?
Grace Tame’s ability to give voice to the voiceless and hold the powerful to account has earned her Crikey’s highest honour.
Source: In a year of deception, one voice stood out: Truth-teller Grace Tame’s
Who is that guy with Grace?
2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame yesterday met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and she did not smile at him. In fact, Ms Tame used powerful body language and a steely side-eye to convey her disdain and contempt for the man.
Source: What is required of a woman if she wants a seat at the powerful men’s table? That she smile. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
And it’s not as though the government was bristling with policy ideas that have had to be shelved. It did miss out on producing a budget surplus, but when the same thing happened to the Rudd government because of the global financial crisis, this was proffered by the Coalition as proof that Labor was unfit to hold office.
Unsurprisingly, the Coalition does not now make the same claim about itself. Our national politics now seems so small. Under Morrison, our national government has defined itself as chiefly a political operation. It’s designed to manage issues as they arise and otherwise do as little as possible. It’s a caravan that rumbles from election to election, waving problems away with slogans until it’s forced to take action.
Meanwhile, it throws small lumps of ideological red meat to its party base and media friends with such things as its constant undermining of universities, the ABC and industry super funds.
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