Daves2017 wrote on Feb 4
th, 2025 at 9:29pm:
Chris Smith on 2sm morning radio made a interesting comment today.
I can’t quote exactly so please correct me if I’m wrong but I’ll put it in ball park figures.
The USA has a population of 330 million people and a government workforce of 2.7 million people.
Australia has a population of 30 million people and a government workforce of 2.5 million people.
If this is correct we are way pass needing a plumber to fix the country.
We need to call in professional pest control and eradicate the problem!
Ahh. Good OP Dave.
The problem you have is that Australia's Political future can never be like America's, up there in the Northern Hemisphere.
It's been trying hard to be, since the Greedy is Good 80's, but Australia has been swimming hard 'against the current' in doing so and the cracks are starting to show.
Australia's Southern Hemisphere political future will be a political Majority population under the 'power' of an Art Industry Minority at the top of the pyramid.
The 'reverse' of America which has Politics in power at the top with a Minority population, but a very large Majority population of the peanut paying Art Industry.
Sure, you can say "But that isn't the case here." and you be right. But Australia will eventually Politically fracture and shatter (like Yugoslavia) into many Independent nations like Cape York, Riverina, Sterling, Wimmera and lots more. Where the Shires hold the 'power' and the weakest political figures are the Prime Ministers (servants of USA) and Governor-Generals for Great Britain as representatives.
We saw just a glimpse of it during Covid Lockdowns where the States were suddenly the political priority over the Federal, that looked like it was out of work. Australia economically boomed to become #1 in the world until the Feds said " you're all vaccinated, let the Virus in!"
Power:
Aust: Art individual, Politics people.
USA: Art people, Politics individual.
So expect Australia's political sector to keep growing in numbers as the $$$ is spread among the common people of this here common wealth.