Comments on: Lucky country needs to make our own luck https://www.openforum.com.au/lucky-country-needs-to-make-our-own-luck/ Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 By: frank6th https://www.openforum.com.au/lucky-country-needs-to-make-our-own-luck/#comment-3748 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 01:44:00 +0000 http://staging.openforum.com.au/blog/lucky-country-needs-to-make-our-own-luck/#comment-3748 Dumb Luck!

I would not trust most politicians as far as I could kick them, they lie to us all the time, they use sport, outrageous decisions and slight of hand to manage public attention on issues. We don't have a bill of rights to set the publics human rights out of reach of megalomaniac powers to be. But at present the Queen still holds enough power to act as a safety net against another Tony or who ever. At present your land is never your own, the only justice you get is however much you can afford to pay for. The public are treaded with contempt by government departments, they see public accountability as the enemy. The general population is viewed as factory fodder, and to be locked into needing to work to survive and needing to move to where the work is rather than the jobs come to them. The unemployed are blamed for being unemployed when it is government decisions that close factories. And you think we should remove our last line of defence, our final safety net and become a republic…. I don't trust dumb luck that much!

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