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Friday, 16 July 2010 03:34
John Archer
Perhaps the most important thing is that representative government is failing us - not only here in Australia but all over the world. In developed economies, people are now more savvy than ever and should therefore be given greater opportunity to comment on any moves including population growth, structural development, government spending and revenue raising, law and order and so on. It is no longer good enough to let a priveleged few run the Council, State or Nation.
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Monday, 19 July 2010 02:58
S Lunyu
The 'cognitive dissonance' has been put in place by those who create the propaganda and state the 'facts', which are not 'facts' at all, just opinions and interpretations. Then those that want a certain answer for a certain agenda just try to find reasons to justify it (i.e. marketing). Ask different questions and you will get different answers. Do the people get a say and access to pure unbiased information to make informed decisions, or is the idea to teach until they get the 'right' answers?
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Monday, 19 July 2010 05:09
Dion Giles
Delighted to see John Archer's comment. Switzerland is the only democracy in the world as the people decide the important issues. We should work towards being the next. Representative government is the least-worst form of government by proxy (better than gunpoint as in China) but proxies have always gone with the money, always do and always will. In US terms, proxies mean governing for Wall Street and K Street, and democracy means governing for Main Street.
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Monday, 19 July 2010 07:43
Ken Acushla
People should decide in conducted decisions on important issues. It is becoming a dictatorship here in Queensland.
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Friday, 23 July 2010 05:41
Darryl Stewart
There are three categories of information - the facts, the true facts and the political spin. All we are getting from all levels of government is the latter in a desperate attempt to twist the available information so that they and their party heavyweights can either gain power or retain power. Government "for the people" has flown out the window. The sad reality is that the vast majority of people are just not interested so we really do get the governments we deserve.
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Friday, 23 July 2010 06:19
John A Cotterell
Darryl Stewart has put far better than I the way I have felt for a long time. I have a feeling though that people are starting to wake up. There appears to be a ground swell of people who are seeing, particularly in Queensland,a proliferation of bureaucracies and quangos that are loading more and more overhead costs on to the consumer. The average Oz may not be policitically sensitive but his hip pocket is.
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Friday, 23 July 2010 23:54
wdberg
Our education system has not reached the stage for the people to make sensible decisions. We still have a long way to go. Take the attitude towards assylum seakers or global warming. For a political leader to use the word 'crap' with regard to global wrming is an indication of this. Many journalists still hole the view that China is backward in many areas.China already had wind farms as early as 1985 when we are still dependent on coal for our power. They should just look at the millions of Chinese professionals who are proficient in the English lanhuage area. Where we have made progress is in the area of food and the proof is in the masterchef programme. I am gald we have moved away from the roastbeef era. We need a better system of world education.
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