Well, they’re of on their hols – still getting paid of course – and they’ve left us a little Chrissy present. The privatisation of a few more of supposedly public services. Don’t they hate services that benefit the public!

You’ve got to admit the King knows his subjects well. Announce another small infringement of democracy and scuttle off for a few months on the public payroll. We’ll have all forgotten about it by then – too busy enjoying ourselves and the kids won’t be thinking about any climate action strikes to spoil their holidays either. Duplicity as old as the hills. Funny how our rulers always announce these particularly unpleasant yet highly life changing nasties just before they disappear on another long holiday. Its all about transparency and accountability, as they say.

Of course, Dirty Dutton’s correct, there are many much more important things going on in our world than the socialists harping on about a little potential forgery, the curtailment of our participation in our futures, the covering up of unpleasanties, and the ministerial discretions involved in the production of false fear and illegal law making … There’s punishments to cook up and to dish out … O to be lolling about on the beach for the summer, sharpening our claws with the Duttons!

So what did the King leave us plebs for Christmas. He left the children an umbrella handle in the spokes of Climate Action … wrapping their Environment up in agricultural and resources. Smart move that. Especially with his new draconian laws against socially conscious trespass. Eh, all your rivers now become just another resource to be poured into wasteful and unnecessary crops. And all your coal and gas burning and mining disappear into the clouds of treasury and its infrastructure. Smart. And no one to challenge how they’re to be used, of should we say divvied out?

All now in the hands of private consultants appointed by the King and his Band of Thieves, paid out of our pockets and charged back as tax deductions to the corporate breakers. A win win win situation; one could say a miracle of divine economics. I’d say the proof will be in the padding – lets just watch the pockets of Matty the Mop, Junior Frydenberg and the go-to man Numbers Robert in the new year. Reckon they’ll be due a pay rise by then, recoop all our dosh they’ve spent in the long summer break.

GetUp’s of course joined the club, and is ignoring the real issues. And one can feel the impact that Pistol Pete’s hobnail boots are having on that wonderful institution called the national broadcaster. Why just yesterday whilst twiddling the dial of my old wireless set I was told that all I now had to do to keep up with the issues that matter was to log in to the government’s Facebook page or, should that be ideological unsound, then to use the Listen app. (Course the reason I was twiddling the dials was because out here in the regions we don’t have internet … Even though I’m assured that we do!) I was lucky enough to briefly listen to – on the old wigwam – a little bit of programming about miracles and their benefit to right thinking and progressive Australians in the 21st century – and all this in the middle of the day when one doesn’t actually expect to be driven into full suicide mode until the midnight hours! How lucky we really are. Miracles … well, I suppose its the way of the future. One doesn’t need to worry much about one’s lawful transgressions when there’s an inevitable miracle stalking you just around the next corner. Eh?

So while I’m not quite ready, yet, to wrap that transparently enlightening and inspiring year of 2019 up quite as quickly as the King and his Clowns have, its good to know, and now to be able to sleep safely in the knowledge, that while none of the King’s miracles actually worked this year, 2020 is a year full of more promises.

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not the possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud. If god were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.” – Gotthold Lessing, Anti-Goeze (1778).