A Fair Go
That’s what we all want, right? An opportunity to create the best life we can for ourselves and our family. Some might argue that as Australians we are entitled to a fair go, that it is engrained in our DNA.
But what’s fair about having to give 50% of my earnings over to the government? Why must I support myself, my family, and my community, when there are those who don’t even try to support themselves? Given the choice between buying a meal for my son or a junkie in Richmond, I’d choose my son every day of the week.
And what’s fair about some bloke in Canberra making decisions that will impact my life? There’s 26 million of us now, it’ll be 30 soon. We are so far removed from the decision makers that our system of governance feels arbitrary, cold. Should we get an opportunity to govern ourselves more locally? American Federalism (theoretically) allows for States to take charge of their own density whilst the Federal Government plays a more limited role. The Americans understood that people want freedom more than anything. This is how they created the greatest empire of our time.
And I think that Clive Palmer is an asshole, but should anybody really pay a $7 million medicare levy? I wonder how many lives Clive saved with that payment? How many people thanked him for his donation? Or did he just get ridiculed in the media. Another ‘greedy’ billionaire.
Did Bruce Lerhmann get a fair go? It used to be that you were innocent until proven guilty, but the media decided he should be punished before our justice system could convict him. His accuser got a $3 million dollar payout (courtesy of the taxpayer) with no verdict. How many meals could have been provided to the less fortunate for that amount?
What’s fair about the Reserve Bank telling Australians that interest rates would stay low until 2024, inducing the less-educated among us to take on more debt than they can handle. Phil Lowe couldn’t make the promises he was making. He knew that if inflation became an issue, he would have to act. And you don’t need an economics degree to know that the monetary policy introduced during COVID was inflationary (although it helps).
What’s fair about locking Melbournians up for 262 days? How many lives and businesses did that destroy? Was it worth it for a virus with a 99% survival rate?
The people who exercised their right to protest against this tyranny didn’t get a fair go, they just got pepper sprayed by a cop on a power trip.
And getting a fair go doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed a great life. You are given an opportunity for it, that’s all. What you make of that opportunity, well that’s up to you.
Aboriginals already enjoy twice as much government spending than the rest of us. That’s more than a fair go I’d say. It’s up to them to do what they want with that opportunity and the government’s responsibility ends there as far as I can tell. I think that changing the Constitution to create an unelected race-based body within our parliament seems, well, un-Australian, to say the least. It definitely violates the principle of a fair go for all Australians.
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