Who has the key?

There is no threat to Australia from asylum seekers arriving by boat. Pursuing that line has been a tool of the right to corral the politically naive and vulnerable.

The collapse of the ABS and its ill advised census should be an indicator to government on the poor state of the machinery of government which in some instances has been promoted by government ideology such as the gutting of the CSIRO. Research is not a creative instrument or priority of the Right which has trouble grappling with concepts and creativity. They are of a mind that the Arts have nothing to do with industry or creating wealth, embodied in the new national motivator – 'jobs and growth'. Members of the LNP can say it with their mouths and minds closed.

Climate Change is a metaphor for nothing left to lose. Successive governments have shown little desire to locate the key; they battle to enjoy the spoils of office and privileges of power, but not to govern.

With increasing intensity the dispossessed fight over degraded water resources, deteriorating infrastructure, diminishing health and educational outcomes, rusting cranes and lament for a leadership that might locate the key.