We’ve got the tragedy that is Afghanistan and the political collusion that says it must continue until the war is won or it is expedient to get out.
We’ve got the carbon tax debate. At the end of all the chit-chat, we will get a carbon tax. That’s the political reality.
We’ve got live cattle exports and the fact is we will continue to send animals overseas because dollars matter and it is politically necessary to do so.
We’ve got the boatpeople. They’ll keep on arriving. Politically, we have to tread carefully between being firm and being compassionate, no matter how or where they are processed.
We will continue to fight in Afghanistan, we will have a carbon tax, live exports will go on and boatpeople will be a fact of life.
How many of those, to whom politics is neither one thing nor the other, really and truly care? I suggest not many among “Ordinary Australians” (How over-used is that statement?) Who are “Ordinary Australians” anyway? Well, they’re families trying to make ends meet, working multiple jobs to pay the bills.
The big issues don’t impact in the same way as mortgage payments, credit card payments, personal loans, insurances, utility costs, rego and on, and on it goes.
Living day to day is what focuses attention for “Ordinary Australians”. As for the big picture? Not in my backyard, thank you!
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