The taxpayer's already shelling out millions on petrol subsidies to the bush and the big drop in diesel. So much for the bush's spiritual renaissance post Olympics. And when you and your correspondents talk about wanting unrestricted access to IVF, or reconciliation, or a republic, or more public funding for whatever, the object of desire is wanted immediately.
News is shortlived.
People want to know about threats to their wellbeing, and governments disguise or hide such threats. It's natural for you as a journalist to work on the traditional short timeframe. Eighty or ninety years later the breakthrough came in Australia. If our goals can stretch beyond the time we will have to enjoy them, then we have gone beyond politics. We are building for strangers, and that is truly good government.