This post is inspired by A press Club discussion headed by Colin Barnett and Saul Eslake. Well done to both of them and Laura and The Press Club for hosting .
Their thoughtful recommendations to set GST transfers in some sort of concrete appears very grounded.
Especially when you look at the idiotic hoop jumping most small taxpayers and empires of bureaus create. If young people are to contribute to this great country, they must not think their houses are the key to prosperity as we seem to.
Saul's gibes (banning timber harvesting ) and Colins counter jibe (no pokies in WA) aside, the issue of funding health and education need the independence ( to create true resilience education instead of half baked education at our bereft universities )
The key point is , while both the guests know a lot about economic realities and prosperity and in Colins case ---real empire building ambitions few sitting in seats have any idea how to make all the Talk of the BIGGER PICTURE in ECOLOGY happen.
It's about real risk EDUCATION and not the token and guilt ridden obfuscation (and fear of complex natural forces) of the media simples stories.
ECONOMISTS don't know everything and cooperation and risk taking without too much government education and science in practice ( with ALL environment questions ) is the key-----ECOLOGY
Why no thinking Australian should support the minorities who currently control the agendas .
While the ignorant and arrogant Greens and wannabes control our electoral system, our politicians will talk to their childish halfbaked rubbish and spend money to try and control things like hot air.
