Is it only me, or has anyone else noticed that punishment and punishments seem to be so much more enjoyable now … How much punishment has become a part of the great Australian character; a sure way to enact our dreams for a golden future on our darling children.

Punishment, and its companion secrecy, for the benefit of our State’s Security, has become a popular keyword – and the driving forces, in the King’s neo-Australia. Have we really, us common people, begun to trangress so much more in the past few years, or is this just the feeling one gets, those of us who have been brought up immersed in the ideals of humanitarian progress, cultural inclusiveness and democracy of the past four centuries?

Once again, I wake up feeling such a great shame at being an Australian, and I can’t help having the feeling that; well, Gee Whizz, we need a good war don’t we? A good old fashioned war to get rid of the spite and the hatred and the fear we’ve allowed only one pathetic generation to build up in our previously enclosed little worlds – preferably a good old fashioned Civil War. I suppose this feeling is all a part of the King’s determination to alter the good character of us Australians? Make us hard and callous and ignorant …

Sure, when we allow the King’s Party Boys to trample the rights of individuals for the benefit of his corporate buddies, to clamp down on our freedoms of speech and our thought, to feed more secret algorithms into computers and debase any requirement to run the country through fair participation in his parliamentary processes, and to allow him instead to run it through the discretions of criminally corrupt ministers – all for our own good – then why, why would any of us free old folk even bother to make the attempt at a new start to living?

“This brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears to me no other thing than a foul and pestilential congregation of vapours.” – Hamlet, William Shakespeare.

When the population of our Lucky Country are no longer free to question the wisdom of the King and his ministers, when our impertinance in even asking for justifications is just wiped away with, … Well, with impertinent majesty, and our ignorance of the real word is treated by the divine powers that be, as, well, as sheer unimportant ignorance … Our reps are contracted only to the King’s Parliament and they make dirty backroom deals, no longer even pretending to be for our benefit. When we can allow our great King to lie and deceive and to rant and to rave and our community representatives stay silent in the privilege of their parliamentary pit.

When His Disgrace, the King, is not even required to pretend to listen to us through them. And If, should we be so impertinent, so ignorant as to ask for the reasons for the further debasement of our characters, we’re told, if were fortunate enough to be told anything at all, that its confidential information pertaining to our great State’s security and that one of his ministers will deal with it – or may not – with integrity and discretion.

Of course, most likely we’re just told another lie that protects us from our own ignorance or a wrong headed, perhaps leftish, willingness to fall back into the false dignity and dangerous character of forgotten Australian humanity. We can however always be sure that those that transgress will be punished. Punished! And we can be sure that we will be punished more regularly and with more force and in more secrecy than ever before and we can be absolutely sure that it will be for our own good. Forever and ever, Amen – because this is progress. Democracy it ain’t … but progress, we are assured, it is.

Its the same with the notion of repeal. Those of us who’ve been forrunate to have lived the most part of our lives in a democratically progressive society – that is, 20th century Australia – tend to think of repeal as a good thing … something along the lines of reform. Something that will be a benefit to the whole of society; like the repeal of the criminalisation of prostitution or abortion or euthenasia or draconian outmoded drug laws … Whereas now, today, alas, we are in a State where repeal means criminalisation and new ways to punish all the progressive steps mankind’s taken over the past few centuries.

Punishment: it’s fundamental to the layering of laws … How we’ve allowed all these new laws to come into being without repealing and wipeing the old ones off the slate. This is rather negligent of us but I suppose its just one of those loopholes that benefit the King’s lawyers and our corrupt government.

There really shouldn’t be any more than four or five laws and every new law proposed should have as one of its principles the abolition of an unnecessary law. But, that would actually provide momentum to progress and, I also suppose, that that just wouldn’t be helpful …. Not to corrupt rulers and their lawyers, nor to the petty self interests of the likes of Madam Lambie in her tiny enclave in Tasmania or to Dirty Dutton in his enclave of dickheads in a suburb in Brisbane. Imagine what it would be like having to fight all over again for something you’d already fought so hard to get into place when instead, a corrupted parliament of protectionist minorities can ‘repeal’ and fall back into the comfort of the sins of their fathers, and, of course, their mothers.

Why wars have always had to be fought of course. Rather than just holding debates and discussions and solving issues through consensus and arguments of good open reason. Wars are enactments of conservative and retrogressive faith and the illogical reasoning of hidden deals, secrecy and the boardroom tactics of the holier than thou minorities. … As of course is the suppression of free speech and the right of assembly.

But enough of the doom and gloom, this week too we’ve seen a little battle for Australia and a little win for democratic integrity. We’ve seen the draconian bill for the dissolution of our right to unionise quashed. A small win perhaps, but one well worth celebrating. So whats next on the agenda? An independent commision on ministerial corruption? Fantastic! And not before time! Perhaps Madam Lambie can find herself a hidden deal in that one too … ?

“Government is, or ought to be instituted for the benefit, protection and security of the people, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family or set of men.” – Dr Thomas Young.