Corrupt Australia presents an alternative to the politically correct channels of debate to reveal and scrutinize the skewed structure/design of modern Australian society. We also seek to encourage autonomous Australian culture which is free from the standardizing and overly materialistic clutches of globalisation and which encourages citizens to go further than simply contributing to a quantity over quality mindset and the banal and unsustainable conditions under which we may increase our love for and attainment of material mass.

The political rally to pure economics


"WHAT does the Rudd Government stand for? Good question. Craig Emerson has sought to fill the vacuum his boss has left, but his proposed "unifying political philosophy" is quite unbalanced.

If we're to take the views of the Minister for Small Business, Dr Emerson, in a recent speech as representative, which I doubt, the Government is committed to returning to the economic rationalism of the Hawke-Keating years after the drift under John Howard.
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His ideal world fits John Kenneth Galbraith's ironic summation of the conservatives' position: the rich need more money as an incentive and the poor need less money as an incentive.

Emerson's "unifying political philosophy" is no such thing. It's merely an economist-centred view of the universe, focusing on material concerns and ambitions, with the implicit assumption that the world consists of markets and not much else."

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This article illustrates the bare fact that all of mainstream politics is increasingly ascribing itself to the 'neo-conservative' agenda which holds that an indefinitely growing economy led by a purely economic elite is the key to all human life and problems. This is not to say that the mainstream 'left' has anything better to offer, because it still thinks within the bounds of the status quo and would simply give a bit more money to different people for 'human' reasons, despite the complete artificiality of the status-quo itself.

Under the current economic system, unbridled growth in the amount of products on the shelves, in the profits of large corporations (the 'trickle down effect'), in the centralisation of economic power (the logical result of *free* markets), in the quantity of the population for labour reasons, in jobs, and in the sheer amount of money circulated through communities, is the social ideal.

What about all those important aspects of life that are not helped by a fanaticism to this or indeed any particular merely economic system - like ethnicity and other organic social bonds, the environment, genuine (as opposed to industry focused) education, aesthetics, national identity, intelligent culture? Corrupt is here to promote them.


Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

- Henry Lawson

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