If we ignore the lessons of history there is a terrible price to pay. Mitcham has given him message. Government means having a realistic participation in the decisions to be made, not merely the occasional chance to vote for a politician. It is a rotten government system which enables him to shunt many unemployed on to the Federal social service system at no cost to his government. The tragedy of power is that a 'leader' is not leading at all.
Leadership is to rally the people to face necessary challenge.
The Victorian Auditor General Nunawading Arts Centre Thurs. The attack on the auditor general is one of several symptoms of a government hostile to democracy. The party system of government has dragged us back to the environment of government hostility to the people s needs which caused the slaughter of 30 miners in the Eureka Stockade in 1854. This period was known as the period of democracy . Now the party system has demolished the democracy which those people so hardly won.