Former Australian fire chiefs say Coalition ignored their advice because of climate change politics Former heads of state fire services say government ‘fundamentally doesn’t like talking about climate change’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/former-australian-fire-chiefs-say-coalition-doesnt-like-talking-about-climate-change

What Are You Continually Feeling Anxious About?

 Not every day, & it does not give me a headache, but it is the knowing that our corrupt government in Australia has too much power & can not be challenged by the common people. They are supposed to be working for the common people, but in fact they are working for the wealthy & the big corporations. We have lost so many of our rights & freedoms now that there is nothing to stop the police raiding ones home without a warrant & confiscating what they will. We have lost the right to armed self defence, even when our families are in danger from an armed intruder in a home invasion!

I feel as though I am under threat from our government & our local government 24/7. This is not good, this is not the way it was supposed to be. We are NOT free & we no longer have a voice. We are no longer a democracy, we are not governed, we are ruled by a dictatorship government. The worse thing of all about this is that the majority of Australians don’t care or don’t want to know. The city people are satisfied with the way things are, they bury their heads in the sand. The fact that our government is involved in the Genocide of West Papuans by the Indonesian government means nothing to the majority of Australians! I find it very worrying & sickening this lack of caring about other people. Sometimes I feel as though we are only a couple of steps away from achieving a “Hunger Games” society!!!

Keith.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership. No Good For Australians.

Democracy or Dictatorship? Is this the thin edge of the wedge?

The problem with Hockey & Abbott may go a lot deeper than just not caring, but it does appear, on the surface at least, that they expect the wealthy to play, whilst the poor work. Hockey's comment about the poor not owning cars, or, not driving very far is beyond rude. Cars are home to some homeless poor, cars get poor people to work, & cars, if they can afford the bloody fuel costs can enable some people a pleasure drive into the country on a weekend.

The budget does appear to be aimed at making the poor work & pay to keep the rich in a position of leisure. How in the hell did a country like ours get the citizens in such a position? No longer do we get a fair go, no longer do we all have equal rights. So what is this? A dictatorship poorly disguised as democracy? We have created a monster to run this country & this countries people, & there appears to be nothing we can lawfully do about it. Who will get in next time? How crook will they be?!!! Is this, for us, the thin edge of the wedge? 

I wonder what it will take to make the people as a whole stand up & say NO? No to mining, no to pollution, no to more rates rises, no to burning fossil fuels instead of using solar, no to denying many people the right to pursue happiness. There has to be a better way of governing/guiding than what we have right now.

End of rant.

Keith. 

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24725129/hockey-apologises-for-comment-about-poor/