Welcome to the Lucky Country

Warning this post has an extreme overuse of bad clichés

It has dawned on me that we have turned our back on our entire culture. The radios and TV channels are full of it, the newspapers covered in it. Apparently we are overrun with a plague of asylum seekers that threatens our very existence.

Like Kevin07 said “fair shake of the sauce bottle” (or some stupid nonsense like that).

There was  a time when we rewarded adventurers. Frontiersmen and women who carved out their lives under harsh conditions, trying to turn harsh lands into liveable communities.

There was the original boat people who landed here (that’s a whole different story) that were to be recognised for surviving the treacherous waters the difficult conditions to set up camp in this new land.

We talk of the hardened battler the courageous soldiers, those that stick by their mates and give anyone a fair go.

Shouldn’t we be celebrating the courage these “adventurers” are showing?

Why aren’t we taking this threat tour security for what it really is, a testing and training ground to be a real Aussie?

• Willing to tackle any challenge for a better life, a fair go.
• Risking life and family they battle extreme life circumstances, hand over to suspect individuals large amounts of personal capital, risk everything travelling on substandard vessels with a hope of reaching a new land, a brighter future.

Are we mistaking the new future of our Australian culture?

Aren’t these the modern day heroes we should be celebrating?

Crikey cobber surely after such a risky gamble that 99.97% of real Aussies would never embark on , we should be waiting on the beaches Shouting at the top of our voices “Welcome to the Lucky Country”.

“Lucky you made it here after the bloody biggest gamble you just took.”

“Welcome to our melting pot, we love diversity we were built on it. Come in lets go down to the RSL and grab a snag and a beer and given you have such good luck here is a lotto ticket cos you know mate your chances of winning that are way better than making it to Australia on a tiny little boat.”

Apparently there is a race going on between the major TV networks to set up a new reality TV show. Covering the journey from far away lands and risking everything to get to a new place. I am sure it wont be as popular as that riveting manufactured load of tripe they call Masterchef, or Australia’s next top model. That’s the problem though isn’t it. Real stories get buried behind entertainment.

Australian policy has become hard line redneck. It is an embarrassing mix of Pauline Hansonisms and supposedly populist short term vote winning strategies. The problem with that is, who is it that thinks it is popular? If it is the “real Aussies” amongst us then this country has a real problem.

Either we believe in a fair go for everyone or we don’t ( Hell what does that even mean anyway). There is no plague, there is no major threat to our country. There is a major threat to our intelligence though if we accept this absolute nonsense as policy any longer. Be gone Howard, Abbott, Rudd and Gillard, you are a leftover from a bygone era. Piss off we should say! go back to wherever your closed off ideas came from and lets get in some fresh blood, some new courageous ideas.

Well that’s what ireckon anyway