Our State is dying on its feet. We have record debt levels, our Health System is in tatters, Education standards are rapidly declining, Victoria Police are understaffed, our roads are so potholed they are unsafe to drive on and crime, particularly juvenile crime, is totally out of control.
Why?
How can this Happen?
The answer is simple. Knock on (almost) any door. The vast majority of electors don’t really care enough to express their disgust. Apathy reigns.
There is the old joke of a person wanting to start an anti-apathy committee but couldn’t get anyone interested.
For the past nine and a half years, the Community Advocacy Alliance Inc. (CAA) website (caainc.org.au) has contained dozens of articles that we have published repeatedly, drawing attention to some of these problems.
We have gained a degree of traction with the general media as a community voice of reason. While this is appreciated, the CAA operates on a shoestring budget, and we have no paid staff. Our members are actually levied to provide operational funds.
Time to give apathy the boot. Time for our readers to get involved.
Join our organization or consider a donation.
We need YOUR support.
With that we could do so much more to encourage the government to lift their game.
Friend of the CAA, Matt Wong interviewed a writer on his long form media platform. The writer said that at uni, they were told that less than 20% of the population will even question and less will act.
Governments such has the Victorian government with massive personal media staff would be well aware of this static. Previously a independent media would question, but a apathetic main stream media that only relays government narrative, will eventually loose its social licence.
The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fiction…….Thomas Sowell ….
Australian apathy appears to have increased with our rise in affluence and the rise in big government that assumes increased responsibilities, over what were personal responsibilities. Yet they appear immune to paying a price for ignoring their responsibilities or for being wrong.
Mr. “I can’t recall”, is a urban example A rural example is the impending disaster of the political removal of all experienced knowledge from rural and forest management for political urban reward.
The few that do stand, such as the CAA, I believe one of the hardest challenges is coming to terms with the apathy, lack of responsibility that surrounds us. Having discussed this apathy issue with numerous other rural Australians, that are directly impacted by city centric governance, the response is always the same.
” There must be economic collapse “.
Regardless of the odds, the minority continue their duty to Australia, without financial or political reward.