Gleeful optimism is how Australia got in this mess in the first place. "She'll be right, mate" has excused far too much of the trouble Australia is currently i

Gleeful optimism is how Australia got in this mess in the first place. "She'll be right, mate" has excused far too much of the trouble Australia is currently in. Start being real, Aussies: Our nation is ruled by corporate fascists who want nothing more than to extract its resources, whatever the cost, and build their new world order with it. Those avocadoes don't smash themselves! A better response to this news, emotionally, is to drop the hubris and self-congratulatory tone and use it as a means of informing the stupidly gleeful in your environment that there is a BIG situation behind this story, and we better start paying more attention to it than whats on telly.