This post fills me with great sadness to write, and discloses some personal things I probably wouldn’t otherwise, but it needs to be said.
Throughout my life I have always given lip service in opposition to discrimination. It must be obliterated from our world yada yada.
It was not until I came here that I really understood what it meant.
Do not be fooled: the most dangerous element in the Australian body politic to the value of the voter is our current political parties.
So for those of you not aware, I’m currently spending some time in Israel. The reasons for this are long and varied, and not particularly relevant to this post, but I’m here for a while. And prior to coming here, you couldn’t exactly describe me as a friend of the State of Israel.
I don’t often rant about renewable energy. Largely because there is no need to. The legislation is generally doing its thing, people are putting money in to it, research is happening, work is happening… it’s all progressing well.
However, I do think it is an important thing that has to be done. We have to continue to find sustainable ways of powering our world. We have to make it as easy possible and as affordable as possible for people to choose renewable energy source.
If there is one thing that I believe is central to much of the issue around the value of the voter in Australia, it is the professionalism, or lack there of, in Australian campaigns.
An American political consultant friend of mine once commented to me that he was a bit stunned by the clear lack of oratorical skill of Australian politicians.
As I said to him: ‘that’s not the only thing that’s lacking’.
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Well it’s still early days yet, and my political brain is still supposed to be on sabbatical, but I have to say it: Google+ was born to campaign.
All areas of Australian politics don’t spend enough on campaigning. Fact.
The supposed asset to our political system of compulsory voting makes both politicians and campaigns lazy.
There. I said it.
