Just a brief reflection ( now that the election result is clear ) FOR all of those of us who, now this weekend , deeply grieve at the lost opportunities to build an Australia we are proud of.
I personally grieve that stupid blinkered guilt ridden, self centred and scientifically and otherwise ignorant Australians, as some of the most wealthy in the world, will continue to waste the opportunities they had to build and strengthen our children's future.
Visiting the people of eastern Europe over the last month has been very sobering for me for many reasons but in particular because, I can see not only in their current and long past land and work life struggles, the killing effects of an idealism that is only half baked . Australians as a whole at the moment, clearly can't.
Australians clearly cannot see that their governments huge investments in real world problem solving are tokenistic and temporary.
Perhaps thats what the rich have always done, but it doesn't make watching it happen in our free democracy easy.
I hate my generation for investing badly in guilt assuaging measures that do not, as Spain has shown this week, do anything to help us better manage our always limited resources.
Vigilance is always the key to true freedom and visiting Europe at this moment is a very sobering reminder of that of what we currently lack on our own island.
It's been my job to understand and care about what really works in resource management, but who really cares to build Australia as a place where careers and lives are built on the solid stuff of that!!!!
