Well, some of them are mad enough to riot, but most are just worried. Several people asked me about GST while I was there. With good reason, they worry that they really missed the boat there. Paul Keating might have bought himself three more years by turning GST into a bogey, but he sold Australia down the river. Please don't mistake me for some small-government ACT nutter, but my God, the Australians have a lot of government.
Political life fills up their newspapers, to their own detriment.
Instead of debate, they get the personalities of their leaders. They have big politicians, big business, big union leaders, and big cops. They have too many police. On the other hand, Australia has public facilities and projects we can only dream of. Thank God we beat them so soundly at rugby.