Is he merely paving the way for the return of the mad monk?
There’s a cult-like feel to today’s Liberal Party, with too many of its MPs meekly following their leader. As the electorate swings to the left, Peter Dutton continues look to the right - it won’t win back the voters they lost.
Dutton is driving the Liberals off a cliff - and his colleagues are passengers watching on
Murdoch, Ch9, and Stokes claim to be the competitive edge of Australian News uninfluenced
My thought for the day
The real enemy of neo-conservative politics in Australia is not Labor or democratic socialism. It is simply what Australians affectionally call “a fair go.” (John Lord )
Source: The year ahead – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The
stuff being revealed at the robodebt royal commission is bigger and
objectively more serious than anything that was revealed during the
Australian Wheat Board scandal, more significant than anything that
emerged from the Rudd-era Pink Batts Inquiry; more grotesque, even, than
the children overboard con. The Whitlam dismissal, as large as that
still looms over the life of domestic politics and governance, cannot
hold a candle to what Robodebt means for systemic sabotage.
To borrow
the terminology of most newsrooms: this is the biggest story in town for
decades.And
this inquiry, I kid you not, is the most damning and serious thing I
have ever covered. It is repulsive in its ramifications. If nothing
comes of this than nothing comes of anything, ever, and we might as well
give up and go home.In
the service of my own ideals, I would forfeit every bit of punishment —
every potential sentence or judgment or personal consequence for those
involved — if it meant a similar harm could never again be perpetuated
against so many hundreds of thousands of people.The alternative to punishment is truth because truth allows change.I’m here for truth, naturally, but don’t think me so foolish as to reject punishment if that is all that is on offer.
I just hope we get more than that.
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