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Feb 13, 2014

Australia, look at yourself.

No, seriously, look at yourself.

• You’ve helped neighbouring countries through dark times,
• You’ve got an economy that has seen off the worst of the global financial crisis and ended up in a much better position than most of its peers,
• You have a diverse, multi-racial population with an estimated resident population born overseas of 27.7% at June 2013,
• You have wonderful natural assets that are major tourist draw-cards.

And yet perhaps in spite of this:

• you bully East Timor over oil and gas        ,
• you consider selling off more assets rather than fixing the structural deficit introduce during the Howard years,
• you support the abhorrent treatment of asylum seekers seemingly in the belief to save lives you have to destroy them,
• you authorise dumping of dredge waste on within the great barrier reef marine park to expand mining shipments.

Are you proud of what you are becoming or have in fact become?

A regional bully happy which is happy to sell the silver rather than change taxation behaviour, treat visitors with contempt, and put our natural heritage at risk.

It troubles me that I cannot be proud of the country I call home.

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