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catsidheThe Federal Minister for Cerebral Aneurysms, Julie Bishop, has declared that it is unacceptable to ask people even to think about an area in which controversial (and widely unpopular) legislation has been imposed, even if that legislation is not actually mentioned. If the Government has passed a set of Industrial Relations ‘reforms’, then it is ipso facto Union propaganda to even consider the effect of legislation on employee conditions.
Yes, you heard it from the mouth of one of the most humourless androids in Howard's cabinet (and that's an achievement), that it is not acceptable to think about what the government has done. Because Thinking leads to Questioning. And Questioning leads to Disagreement. And Disagreement with the Government is Sedition. And Sedition is Terrorism. A law says so, it must be true.
But we shouldn't be thinking about what social damage has been done by Howard and his gang of thugs. Not just because thinking is not acceptable, but because money is the only meaningful measure. If you can't sell it, it's beneath notice.
Yes, you heard it from the mouth of one of the most humourless androids in Howard's cabinet (and that's an achievement), that it is not acceptable to think about what the government has done. Because Thinking leads to Questioning. And Questioning leads to Disagreement. And Disagreement with the Government is Sedition. And Sedition is Terrorism. A law says so, it must be true.
But we shouldn't be thinking about what social damage has been done by Howard and his gang of thugs. Not just because thinking is not acceptable, but because money is the only meaningful measure. If you can't sell it, it's beneath notice.
