Mateship, Battlers & Egalitarian Words(26.1.04)'Mateship' (as we assies know it) has disappeared under the current'tory style' conservative government. Prime Minister Howard frequently invokes the beloved cliche` he's eased off lately on 'egalitarian' taken the integrity from that word his favourite of late is 'the battlers' using those 'endearing' words to bring him closer more popular with voters quite certain his 'palliative crawling' will return him to power (when he decides the date of the next election) Which leaves me wondering How much longer do we allow ourselves to be beset by fear of mosques and turbaned strangers bullied and lied to over children (never) thrown in the water fooled into waging war over non-existent 'weapons of mass destruction' by a shifty cold little Machiavellian man, posing as everyone's good-guy, your friendly dependable, power-walking, child-hugging cricket-quoting, 1950's 'white-picket-fence' straight-talking man-next-door 'honest' John Howard Pamela Sidney 2004 |