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“You now sound like Alan Jones or Gina Rhineheart”

This on the basis that I prefer, not small government, but strategic governance!

Alan and Gina simply want small government so they (or their mates) can take more of the pie for themselves. These people are the ultimate rent-seekers and they don’t want governments regulating their greed.

I simply want government to focus on addressing any required change by creating environments of certainty, and where possible, letting market forces then implement the changes through the application of capital or people, or both.

In all complex human systems an ideal can never be achieved. Its all about which direction you are heading and a change in any direction cannot be achieved unless a problem, a solution and a strategy, are all articulated. Our governments seem to muddling along without any philosophy of how to govern. One minute they introduce a wonderful carbon tax, and then try to kill it, previously they banned the incandescent light bulbs and now they are investing (wasting) tax payers money into private enterprises executing so-called green energies.

I really don’t care which ‘party’ did what. In my eyes they are both equally culpable in their ignorance and incompetence. Mutually they represent a fuck-up of the highest order. I hope things get very dire because without this I can’t see the major change that we need ever happening.

I live by the hope that the darkest hour is just before dawn.