Thread by @MurdochCadell

Apart from the submarines, here are a few other areas where Australia, under Morrison, has not gone through with their obligations to be ethical and lawful:

We abandoned our ‘staunch Afghan allies’ in their hour of need and wouldn’t even offer them protection visas…

#Afghans

By my not holding ‘war crimes trials’, when the evidence suggests we should, while being a signature to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, we broke our agreement to that body, and the civilians we murdered in Afghanistan

By not honouring our commitments to the various environmental agreements such as ‘Kyoto’ and ‘Paris’ we have failed in our duty to be a leader of ‘climate policy and innovation’ rather than just a reluctant (greedy) follower.

By treating people seeking safety and basic rights of life with brutality and savagery in order to ‘stop the boats’ (aka ‘win western Sydney marginal seats’) we have failed in our duty under various international conventions, such as ‘Refugee’ and ‘Law of the Sea.

#refugees

We say we ‘care deeply’ about our First Nations peoples, and offer platitudes and worthless words at any opportunity, but deny them recognition of the wrongs that they demand, and fail, year after year, to place the necessary effort into redressing their suffering and desperation

We continually take money from communities that are most at risk, such as the families of disabled, single parents, and the unemployed, simply because we can, and they ‘cost money, because they don’t vote for us anyway’
Compassion is not ‘cost effective’ (or a vote winner).

We don’t tax the most polluting companies on earth and allow them instead to ‘pay their tax by the way of political donations to the major parties’, as if that will somehow ‘trickle down’ to the poor and future generations.
Somehow it never seems to make it.

Our politicians award themselves generous pay rises each and every year, while we begrudge the poor every dollar (‘they will only spend it done the pub’ say our politicians, who live off taxpayer largesse, in fancy restaurants, lavish dinners with fine wine, and chauffeurs).

We pass ‘Whistleblower Protection Laws’ and say things like ‘If you see something, say something’, but then we put those who ‘stand up’ in gaol. For a very long time.

We never prosecute politicians and public servants. They never break the law. They can’t. ‘They are the law’.

Readers can probably continue their own list, but I’m sickened by the ease in which examples of Govt duplicity come to mind.

When Scott Morrison says he ‘needed to put Australia’s interest first’ it doesn’t make sense.

Unless, of course you substitute ‘Australia’ with either ‘The US’ or ‘Rupert Murdoch’.

I’m not sure who is really pulling the strings, but one group is not: ‘the people of Australia’