As I have watched, with a mixture of dismay and disgust, the public events coming to a head on Australia Day, I have cogitated on what is driving such torment against our Australian way of life. The happy, relaxed, egalitarian, and obviously successful society we have built and enjoyed from earliest memories, seems to be under attack from a vocal leftist Woke brigade. They are hell bent on destroying the best of what we have achieved and rewriting our history to suit their warped, irrational, and narrow-minded point of view.

I am reminded of the age-old quote ‘Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.’

Which is translated: ‘Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first deprive of reason.’ Or: ‘Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.’

Either translation of this 16th Century quote seems ideally suited to so many of our present so-called leaders. Leaders who seem in a constant quandary to manage what is happening, when their leadership would be much more orderly if they influenced what is happening. In simple terms; had a practical plan for Australia’s future that would enthuse its citizens.

When we have Prime Minister Albanese proclaim: ‘We will act to stop climate change by cutting emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and cut present emissions by 43 per cent by 2030.’ We can only assume that the Gods have already deprived our Prime Minister of reason. These are words only without any practical means of implementation, but when Climate Change Minister, Chris Bowen, oxymoronically claims ‘natural disasters are increasingly more frequent, more intense, and natural disasters are increasingly less natural’, we have every right to think that the Gods have made the Minister mad. There seems no other rational explanation for this senseless brouhaha. Such frivolous prognostications treats voters with insolence and there will be long-term repercussions as voters come to realise that they are being led by people unworthy of the job.

Sadly, across all spheres of government and across all political parties today, we have people who fit the quote above and many of these people head government departments. These departments are failing the people, the nation, and often their lofty ideals. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the handling of Aboriginal affairs, which is an area of failed management and wasted billions of dollars. At last assessment, Aboriginal affairs appears to be costing taxpayers in excess of 30 billion dollars per year at a federal level, plus whatever the states add in. Yes, 30 billion dollars for an obvious failure that we see being played out on our TV screens every evening.

Why is this continuing at such cost to our society?

Because present leaders (and that is a misnomer) have lost their capacity for reason. They lack the diligence to seek out and demand truth. If they had any, they would realise that the problem with outback Aboriginal communities is rooted in the falsely hyped concept of ‘culture’. Only when all citizens are encouraged to accept Australian culture, a culture based on egalitarian mateship that is the basis of the progressive civilisation that has transformed Australia from an inhumane, patriarchal life of misery into one of the world’s most successful nations, can the gap be closed. Only then can those Aboriginal people trapped in cycles of poverty and abuse break free of dependency to the state.

There is no other way and our present leaders, nobbled by the Gods or their own ignorance, must change or they will be changed.

Australians can live a life of united harmony as one people united by the land we share, but only when we recognise that everyone born in Australia is Indigenous to Australia and no one else has the right to welcome us to our shared country. Australia belongs to all of us and we are fortunate to share in its bountiful resources.

Attempts to have different laws based on race as is proposed with ‘The Voice’ is a divisive from of politics and will prove counter-productive. We can and must do better than this insolent proposal perpetrated by capricious bureaucrats unmindful of the beauty of what we have created. A nation with one set of laws for all citizens and this must be backed by conformity in implementing those laws.

Given the grace of God and the wisdom of humble leaders and each of us respecting the other, we will on this wonderful land build our destiny for evermore.