The Morning After

Many of us would be forgiven for waking up this morning and feeling like we have just entered a dark tunnel. Many of us would be forgiven for feeling violated. After all, the country’s wealth and riches have just been cruelly and foolishly plundered by the men too many voters put in charge last September.

Tony Abbott’s government left no stone unturned in last night’s budget. It feels like everything we hold so dear has been violently torn away from us. The #Budget2014 was confirmation for me that our country has been taken over by some frighteningly dangerous men.

These men from the Liberal Party, these right-wing neo-liberal ideologues, are doing the bidding of some of the country’s and the world’s most powerful elite. Those who have made their riches from mining our sovereign wealth and building our city’s congested tollroads and skyscrapers will be slapping each other on the back when next they meet in the country’s boardrooms, airline lounges and gentlemen’s clubs. You can be guaranteed that the lads from the Institute of Public Affairs will be clamouring to join them.