Spare us this
What an appalling ramble from Bill Kelty. I’ll mention only four points.
1. “The environment, climate change and Indigenous rights are big issues for the future.”
No. They were issues decades and more ago. If they’re not issues for now, there will be no future.
2. No mention of excess salaries and rapidly rising company profits. These come at the expense of workers. A fair day’s pay comes before excessive executive salaries and dividends. Tax reform is essential. We need to check our greed.
3. AUKUS – what about Australia’s lack of sovereignty? We must examine and recognise the insanity that is the US reality. We are currently “paying” to remain on a sinking ship with the US steering it onto rocks.
4. Kelty’s strong forever support for Israel blinds him to the real problem – imposing a new country on the land of people who already lived there, without consultation or compensation. Always brutality, land theft and death. The current genocide in Palestine did “not” start with Hamas on 7 October.
Yes, Labor is “mired in mediocrity”. But God help us if Kelty’s ramble is meant to indicate a fix. “We’ll all be rooned,” as Hanrahan said.
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