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.

An alternative to 'economism': elitist holism


"My point is that, in Australia today, at the level of ideas, the neo-liberal opposition to constructive governance and nation building is eclipsed or even exhausted.

My survey of middle Australian attitudes showed that even 10 years ago there was no consensus for economic reform and, more to the point, that the broad middle was waking up, even then, that more economic reform meant more pressure on families, run down public health and education services, less job security, more stressful workplaces, urban degradation, uncertain retirement incomes, and probably declining whole-of-life incomes.

We might yet insist anew that governments should make the economy work for the people - not the people for the economy. I think I hear that bit of the story coming at us like a steam train in a tunnel."

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Thankfully, in their own ways, some more Australians are waking up the false reality of the 'economics will do and fix everything' mentality. This is not to say that people are coming to disregard things like good wages, stable employment, good economic management etc, but that a few more are realising economics is simply the answer to the economy and not necessarily to the other important aspects of life like planning, the environment, extra-monetary standards of life and general happiness.

We need intelligent and holistic minded human beings to make decisions again, not abstract economic models with their swag of naive assumptions. Join us and give your support to this realistic mindset.


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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