The writing has been on the wall for a long time in Australia but vested interests and the status quo means no meaningful change is actually going to happen. T

The writing has been on the wall for a long time in Australia but vested interests and the status quo means no meaningful change is actually going to happen. Take Australia National Broadband Network (NBN) strategy as an example. Connecting every house and business to a fibre optic line would have "future-proofed" the nation for generations. Instead it was destroyed by the conservative government, along with investments in renewable energy, a resources super tax and a range of other progressive ideas. This country is run by dinosaurs. While there are intellectuals, theres also a proud culture of ignorance and weird working class arrogance. Instead of having pride in working class jobs and pride in working class people who put food on their families tables and support their community it seems theres been a concerted effort to warp it into and "us vs them" attitude of "true blue" working class Australians against white collar "know it alls". This is plain to see when the current Prime Minister and former investment banker goes into rural towns wearing his untarnished Akubra and adopts his fake working class accent to stoke tension between rural and city people. Australia often has bushfires every 7 years or so that have historically cleared out a lot of dead wood and given the bushland an opportunity to breath and grow again. New policies to prevent bushfires meant woodlands accumulated fuel which led to cataclysmic-ally large bushfires like black saturday, ash wednesday etc. Its hard not to think that Australias approach towards governance is similiar and that the only way for us to re-set the agenda is through a huge depression.