Saturday, February 28, 2026

Fathery figures

 

Howard the Father once steered like a pilot,

While Albo the Grandpa just lets the kids riot.

If a real Father came, would we sell him or buy him?

Too strong a medicine? — don’t vote for more lie in.





The key to this moment in Australia's history is probably uncertainty 
For the first time in a long time, we don't know what hope we can offer to our children 

Can we offer them?
A less economically divided society .....Rich oldies,  poorer young ...The lack of a real leader threat 
A means of keeping house  full time work creative work single income houses... cost of living threats
Creative work     The underemployment ...., lower wage take ....and ......migrants threats 
A means of keeping warm and moving around  ........High cost energy threats 
Economic futures confusion    Greenlabor offer limp jobs and trades in trees not careers in eco leadership   

Both major parties are in deep trouble because they cannot be convincing about their ability to deal with the above issues.
Who would trust those emerging parties who see the problems, but have no eco advisers for solutions 

More uncertainty threatens, just as it does right across the West .
Economy presses when a Ecological economic framing would greatly reduce the stresses.

The overly comfortable Libs are split but that's not all bad because there is within the conservatives who once found a home there an energy ( forget the many comfortable libs ) for 
stronger medicine and tougher parenting.   

 I just hope the Conservatives  take seriously that no leader can really work in such a rich but threatened ecosystem without taking advice - expert economic  and ecological economic advice.

The current incumbents talk about toughness ,but the reality is they offer only tokens ; costing us our assets and profits that could be used productively.... instead of being thrown to the wind . Green labor - so heavenly minded they are of little earthly use (always said of the overly religious) 


Some hope ?
The one enemy of our age we can deal with,  if we stop lying about, is poor parenting and throwing our savings into ineffective tokens


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