We deserve, but won't get, a great public service

April 14, 2026

Jack is currently performing an extraordinarily vital role in attempting to achieve a functioning democracy in Australia. At present, as he recognises all too clearly, we have an oligarchy that has supplanted whatever democracy we had, with rule by an unaccountable political and bureaucratic class intent on protecting “the bewildered herd” from any information that might enable them to judge the performance of those classes.

Both have struggled mightily to achieve their Orwellian desire to control the public mind and consign transparency and accountability to the “memory hole”. Expectations of Labor were high in the mistaken belief that they had somehow escaped the clutches of that oligarchic mindset. But as most of them are denizens of a modern political system that is isolated from the real world in which the rest of us live, it was probably too much to expect that they would be prepared to reform the system that bred them.

We now face the prospect of repeating the disaster that the similarly flawed system of the US has produced in Donald Trump, by electing the intellectual and moral midget of Pauline Hanson as our next PM!!