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.

Democracy: don't blame the politicians or the voters


"Not all of "Questions without notice" (aka Question Time) is gunk, but most of it is. It is meant to be where the executive is held to account by the people's representatives, but instead revolves around tactics, the "horse race" and maintaining the "psychological advantage."

"In a way, its sorry state reflects the general reporting of politics. As one becomes increasingly superficial, so does the other.
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See what I mean? The dross is all most of us wanted to know, and it only required an hour and a half's observation. The things that really matter would need hundreds of tedious hours - and probably make dull reading."

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This is nothing more than a report on democracy in action. Most people do not have any real understanding of the complexity of most issues, nor do they want it. They're simply into the emotional, grand-standing, more 'superficial' stuff, and so this is exactly what the commercial/globalist media compete to cover and present. In no time at all the politicians have become hip to this and increasingly construct careers around all the superficiality and crowd-pleasing hype to enhance their personal career aspirations (read: popularity).

Neither the politicians nor the public can be blamed for this hideous state of affairs: the public vote but a logical, philosophical, or critical approach to the world and its political and social issues is not taught in schools, and many people simply are not that good at thinking for themselves in matters of society in the first place (we're not all equal in our abilities and interests, despite the claptrap).

The blame lies, again, not with any one group of people but with the design. The design of our politics, or mass democratic theory itself, simply ignores the reality of the world. Mass democracy is a Utopian dream that is allowing those with lots of power to manipulate vital issues to their own personal advantage via the minds of an unwitting public who are supposed to be capable of independent thought and an executive, more than fleeting dedication to issues when in fact they aren't.


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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