Frank wrote on Jun 1
st, 2024 at 12:40pm:
The nation is more divided than ever about fundamental values leading to a growing cultural chasm with two sure consequences: it is far more difficult to achieve national interest policies and once a society is split on values then mutual trust quickly evaporates. This is Australia’s plight.
Ok so far, even if written by a Murdock hack; let's see how he defines "values".....
Quote:The diversity of the chasm reveals its complexity – it includes identity politics, the climate threat, minority rights, racism, environmentalism, educational instruction, Australia’s history, migrant policy, religious freedom and Indigenous justice.
Well, yes; but what about the cost of living crisis, the primary concern of the least well-off HALF of the population?
Quote:Above all, it is a conflict over morality.[/highlight]
BS and crap. We all want morality, justice, and fairness, but governments everywhere are presiding over
cost of living crises which affects half the population badly, while CEOs are laughing all the way to the bank. At least Trump in the US is willing to break the rules to 'MAGA'; eg low taxes, trade wars, f*ck the debt and deficit; but could he eradicate poverty in the US?
Quote:That’s what makes it intractable.
No; your comfortable halfwit conservative brain makes it intractable.
Quote:The driving force is the rejection of the existing moral order.
Read: Judeo-Christian moral order; ok, if governments practiced Christ's commandments: love God and love one-another.
But even now the Oz government is refusing to recognize the Palestinian state, the necessary FIRST step to ending the cycle of violence in the ME. (Palestine should have been recognized when Israel was recognized, as per UN res 181).
You want to heal the nation's divisions?
Subsidize low income groups to eliminate the cost of living crisis.
All the other stuff: religious differences (and "religious freedom" bs; there is only one god), identity politics, "rights" -poorly defined...eg what about the right to a job, etc ... this OZ writer is a conservative fraud.
Hopefully, Oz isn't as bad as the US, given today's events (Trump assassination attempt) ...even though the writer suggests we ARE as riven as the US.