Judi Moylan is that
very rare entity: a politician who puts principles before ego and ambition.
It’s worth listening to the short audio imbedded in this link.
To me, this is very
sad, because Moylan is too empathetic and not ruthless enough to make it to the
front bench – she is one of the last of her kind in her party – yet Federal
politics needs more people like her and less like our leaders and
leaders-in-waiting.
No one in a position
of power or influence in Australian politics has the guts to stand up to the
paranoid element in our society. In fact, they do the exact opposite, knowing
that by pandering to xenophobia and insecurity they can win the next election.
Australian electioneering is governed by the politics of fear, when we have the
most buoyant economy in the Western world. What does that say about us as a
people?
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