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Neoliberalism in effect undermined the class positions of both major political parties, and both have spent the subsequent years trying to find a new role.
In my term in parliament, I want to convince Australians to reconsider whether handing their money over to the government is better than keeping it themselves.
Given that they have had virtually a monopoly of the mass media, the government and the scientific academies, doesn't that point to a fundamental problem with the 'climate change' message?
If a line cannot be drawn through this type of campaign tactic it is likely that many people with excellent credentials and cause to run for public office will simply shy away.
It has been apparent (to me at least) that the Easter story and the Anzac story have been engaged in their own war of myths for a long time, escalating in the last decade.
It's time for a Boomer political party. Not to look back in wistful nostalgia to days of flaired pants and campus sit-ins, but a new party that fights for intergenerational equity.
