Australia, it should be changed to it's real name: 'Fakeville'

'Welcome to Fakeville' the place where we rob from others only to make sure nobody robs from us. That should be the opening slogan on the Department of Immigration website for people seeking out Australian citizenship. I had the joy of coming to know just today of the unending mean spiritedness of this government. I was reading that Quade Cooper (decorated former Wallaby) has been denied his citizenship (again) by this mob. I also heard of a memoir by a former Refugee on Manus Island who escaped to Canada to write a book called "Escape from Manus" or the Aboriginal Elder Eyleen Cummings who has had to sue the Federal government as lead applicant in a class action for being a 'stolen generation child' without any compensation whatsoever.

This is the nation where we 'sell ourselves internationally' as a liberal democracy, embracing such ennobling activities such as advancing the 'rule of law' with 'free and fair elections' and such nonsense as a 'participatory democracy'... all of these slogans are just 'froth and bubbles' when it comes to Australia and the Political Class that Lord it over us and have been doing so since the time of our inception. Look no further than it‘s biggest city, Sydney; named after a guy (Thomas Townshend himself renamed by peerage to 1st Viscount Sydney or Lord Sydney) who never set foot in the joint. Just a ‘fake façade’ for everything wrong about this nation and how it’s run. I mean who could possibly miss the Freudian slip in the advertising trying to advertise the place; "Sydney, love it like you mean it" ...

I’m now advocating for the renaming of Sydney to it‘s original Aboriginal name; Eora, in honour of it being Eora Nation. India did it by shaking off the names given to huge cities such as Mumbai (formally Bombay) to embrace the original identity of the city and its people.

Now to a short list of things that are wrong with our system; lets start with this little nugget; a 'participatory democracy'. If that means pre-signing a whole book of blank cheques over to someone to say 'take care of the finances for me and cash whatever you want, whenever you want’ then that's pretty accurate. But you and I know, that is not what that slogan has been sold to us as representing, and the fact that we have not yet woken up to this political posturing confirms my thesis that most 'Australians' are just as fake as the nation they inhabit.

Next; 'free and fair elections'. That is a beauty. If that means that the 'parliamentary wing of the Party runs the show and the rank and file members are simply fodder', then that slogan is also apt. Look no further than the re-election of Barnaby Joyce as Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister. His colleagues had the audacity to tell us they re-elected him because he was a very good 'retail politician' ... that's simply code for "he knows how to bullshit the electorate better than any of us". I'm sure it didn't go unnoticed that a sizable portion of rank and file members of the Nat's simply shaked their heads. This is a man who pontificated his righteousness to us, but was banging his secretary on the side and planting a baby at the same time. It was Plato who posited that we get 'the politicians we deserve' subject to our own participation or lack thereof.

And finally, lets deal with the most common of the lot; 'the rule of law'. If that meant that 'there is one rule for the Political Class and another for everyone else' then that would also be correct. We have seen the spineless individuals line up one after the other to say that they would not want political processes or commentary interfering with matters that are 'sub-judacy' or before the courts when referring to one of their own; Christian Porter. I'm not sure why they'd worry so much, most judges are the simply pivots of their political masters anyway. The rule of law slogan, serves to reinforce the clear message that it is not 'know how' that wins cases, but 'know who' that deliver the best results and in this regard the 'upper end of town' know they can manufacture almost any decision they require under our 'common law' system, all it takes is enough money to employ the services of a QC (at a cost of anywhere between $8 - $20K per day).

There is a reason why the people who continue to occupy the drivers seat in White Australia, can't come to terms with it's Black past; it is because confronting the past (and the present) with the introspection it deserves (and requires) will inevitably shine a light on the litany of past failures and outright rotten government policies that have kept these people (and all of us) so far behind the rest of (wealthy and privileged) Australia for so long. Yes, while Aussies are ever more encouraged by the conflation of their house prices on an ever growing trajectory of unsustainable growth, I look forward to the day when it all comes crashing down. I look forward to that happening because it might just shake people up enough to realise that we cannot go on with the current Political Class continuing to Lord it over us and hold us back from building a better Australia for everyone. WE NEED a viable third force in Australian politics, before its too late.