Just as I suspected as a university student, way back when, it really IS all about the money.
Money for massive corporate (multinational oil/national retail) concerns; money for the laughable entity that is Australia's federal government; money for the bootlicking, seat-sniffing, mysogenistic yokels whose #1 priority is the dizzying sale of our state's birthright for a veritable mess of foreign pottage and bragging rights to a disgusting stat surplus.
Not one public figure or institution has got the slightest clue about what is in our nation's and our citizens' best interests. The focus is rather on employment figures, oil prices (my god! why DON'T all Australians drive natural gas-powered cars...?!?!)
We wring our hands about inflation...that is itself being fuelled by the massive demand for labour that oil, gas, mining corporations can't get into tankers and pipelines quick enough.
...not that anyone would read about it in "our" state's paper, the West Australian. Letter after letter to the editor never sees the light of day if questioning what federation has ever done for our state - or, god forbid, one should mention the word "secession".
I'm drunk. I'm disgusted and I'm tired...from working long hours and trying to keep a small business afloat in a state that doesn't give a toss about me and the many others like me, likewise struggling to remain afloat and sane.
Must sleep, but am glad to have squeezed out the time for even this incoherent post that nobody will read....Nevermind...it's a tonic for the writer.
We need a state government that believes in the same things as we do...not mere shills for corporate and federal interests.
If our government were real, they'd be threatening secession for the shafting we get from Canberra.
If we were real Westralians, we'd be disgusted by the level of representation we get here in WA. We are being taxed without representation.
It should be illegal.
Money for massive corporate (multinational oil/national retail) concerns; money for the laughable entity that is Australia's federal government; money for the bootlicking, seat-sniffing, mysogenistic yokels whose #1 priority is the dizzying sale of our state's birthright for a veritable mess of foreign pottage and bragging rights to a disgusting stat surplus.
Not one public figure or institution has got the slightest clue about what is in our nation's and our citizens' best interests. The focus is rather on employment figures, oil prices (my god! why DON'T all Australians drive natural gas-powered cars...?!?!)
We wring our hands about inflation...that is itself being fuelled by the massive demand for labour that oil, gas, mining corporations can't get into tankers and pipelines quick enough.
...not that anyone would read about it in "our" state's paper, the West Australian. Letter after letter to the editor never sees the light of day if questioning what federation has ever done for our state - or, god forbid, one should mention the word "secession".
I'm drunk. I'm disgusted and I'm tired...from working long hours and trying to keep a small business afloat in a state that doesn't give a toss about me and the many others like me, likewise struggling to remain afloat and sane.
Must sleep, but am glad to have squeezed out the time for even this incoherent post that nobody will read....Nevermind...it's a tonic for the writer.
We need a state government that believes in the same things as we do...not mere shills for corporate and federal interests.
If our government were real, they'd be threatening secession for the shafting we get from Canberra.
If we were real Westralians, we'd be disgusted by the level of representation we get here in WA. We are being taxed without representation.
It should be illegal.
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