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”, 22/7) that dealing with the pandemic, like motor vehicle use, should be regulated, and not left to individual measures.
Despite scientific knowledge of the preventive action necessary, and decades of expert warnings, business as usual prevailed, simply because every potential change threatened some or all of power, privilege, money or convenience for some group or other. Unless a miraculous epiphany enlightens global political and economic leaders at macro level as well as state and local government and each one of us at micro level, it would seem that within a few generations of increasingly dystopian existence, not only our goose, but other animals, including ourselves, will be cooked.
Australia has civil-society organisations offering sound models for reform, and now independent MPs who back such reforms. Not just for an institution to root out criminal corruption, but for institutional oversight that stops political culture falling shamelessly to the lowest common conduct – because “everybody does it” – and, once in power, all sides can do it with impunity.
Some inroads into this problem would have been achieved if the Labor Party had won the 2019 election but the backlash against that policy was so loud that Labor has been scared off making the change that is needed.
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