John Howard has been threatening and promising it for so long it has finally happened. Australian voters are facing the political reality of a double disillusion. This is not a knee-jerk reaction to the abysmal performance of Australia's highly paid politicians. Talkback radio has been allowed to set the political agenda for so long voters have become disillusioned with the back-stabbing, sniping, mud slinging and dummy spitting now passing for political debate. Australian politicians, using their hand crafted 30 second sound bites to maintain the right to supplement their meagre wage by investing in outside business interests, have added to this chronic depression.
Voters now realise politicians have no interest in politics at all.
Australians are suffering the lingering effects of the depression we had to have. A depression generating billions of dollars for multinational pharmaceutical companies. Help, however is at hand from an unlikely source. Richard Ackland, host of Media Watch, a weekly television program dedicated to exposing bad grammar in journalism, ensuring local community newsletters their 15 minutes of shame, has uncovered the real reason. Researching for an upcoming episode, about television news readers and an unscrupulous Sydney hair transplant surgeon, Media Watch uncovered documents revealing John Laws has been paid to say nice things about Banks.