The political scene in Australia has been corrupted in the last 30 years, starting with the election of Bob Hawke in 1983, which signalled the beginning of a new destructive ideology in mainstream Australian politics: neoliberalism. This ideology, which was passed down to Labor and Liberal governments alike, has now found its way into the most totalitarian government in Australian history: Tony Abbott’s Liberal administration.
This government, dedicated to building an society of two Australias, one for the rich and upper class people, where you don’t have pay taxes and because you have money, you can afford things like deregulated healthcare and private education, and the other Australia which is the reality for most in this country, where you get left behind if you didn’t inherit copious amounts of money from your parents. It is this idea that fuels this Liberal government and influences each and every policy decision Abbott and his henchmen make. It is the idea behind the hideous $7 GP co-payment and the lack of means testing which pushes the poor further behind. We can’t let the next generation live in a worse Australia than we do at the moment. Neoliberalism must be destroyed and we need it destroyed quickly.
Unfortunately, neither Labor nor Abbott’s Liberals will destroy or want to destroy it because they are the ones who profit from it. These two parties and the ruling bourgeois class are the ones who are driving this destruction of humanity. Socialists, social democrats and just people who care about the future of humanity and equality need to stand up and take action in destroying the two party system which drives this terrible anti-proletariat ideology they call neoliberalism.
The Paddy File 