Australia under new mismanagement?

I am not the only one to suggest that Abbott should "ignore stupid old men", like John Howard, who now openly confesses without a trace of conscience or shame that he dissembled to suit political expediency. Was this also his credo with regard to invading Iraq?

In saying this John Howard is confessing to a preparedness to sacrifice the lives of millions and to decimate the future of his own children and grandchildren. All for the sake of strutting the stage, full of sound and fury. All for the sake of vacuously exercised power.

My advice and probably vain hope is that Abbott will turn on the corrupt king makers who have installed him. The little coterie, of anti science anti humanistic oddballs, that include Andrew Bolt and other shock jocks as well as the Murdoch Press IPA and mining interests.

But failing that; and because maybe it's a big ask - Its hard to give up old buddies - I advise him to retain scientific and other advisors with real expertise.

To not appoint old climate denier cronies just for old times sake.

To heed the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, in framing his policies.

To care about the vulnerable.

To strive for a fair and just Australia.

To preserve our moral gains.

To not destroy the environment, by massive mining approval.

To not approve mines that export masses of unpriced CO2 that will add irremediably to the global emissions footprint.

Here are two 'messages in a bottle' to Tony Abbott PM and The Labour Opposition, They are written by two ordinary Australian citizens

Dear Bill Shorten etc

I have been massively let down by your combined ethical cart wheels over the last

six years. It has been a roller coaster ride of hope and despair. Your treatment of asylum seekers has been appalling. You have botched the climate change challenge , but you do at least seem to have tried. Now you are stuck on the other side of the House of Representatives. Please do not be wimps. Hold the Government to account. Be strong and fearless. Don't let me down. Although I didn't vote for you

Yours sincerely ,disillusioned voter.

...

Dear Tony Abbott,

I write this on the eve of the resumption of parliament on the 12^th of November 2013.

I am disappointed to hear that you will not be attending the whole of the first parliamentary sitting .

You are in now the top job, and not looking very happy after all. You have a sizable chunk of influence and responsibility in direction and decision making. You have some power of life and death over current and future generations. You are a custodian of this earth for your term in office. There is not much time left, if we are to avert catastrophe. Tony you have three lovely daughters, who will have children of their own, so somewhere deep inside I have to believe that you care about their futures.

You have seized the prize. Use it well and wisely.

Govern for me, and all Australians, as you have said you would,

(even though I didn't vote for you).

Yours sincerely ,

concerned citizen, mother and grandmother.