But a significant number of people have been promoted to that degree without due process, and for no good reason. And many senior public servants are members of the police service, which has for years vigorously resisted all efforts at public scrutiny. Politicians love to tell us how wonderful they are, and how we will benefit if only they are permitted to govern us. Parliament has become a byword for execrable behaviour and hypocrisy. Politicians are those in our society who make the rules.
Children naturally imitate the most visible of their family.
Righteous, but weak parents will be nullified by strong, tyrannical elder siblings. And if there are elders of our Western Australian community who are strong and unethical, then they will be the ones imitated, rather than the virtuous but ineffective. OK, so some of the argument is simplistic. There is an argument that we are all big people, that as adults we should act responsibly, and besides, two wrongs do not make a right. The sad fact is that most adults are children grown big, and this includes all strata of society.