AS WE LEMMINGS’ PREPARE TO LEAP……….

Gerry Dubbin
16 min readJun 21, 2022

A Very ordinary Australian punter.
I am also one among 24 odd million others, and a reasonably long-time resident on this wide, brown land, under the tropic of Capricorn. Regardless of which part of the political spectrum we Australians might individually lean toward, most have become utterly disgusted with the deception, lies, lack of integrity and vision of those who have wielded power over us, and the world in general, for decades………More particularly these days, we Australians have become even more anxious at the direction world affairs appear to be taking us………

One Step forward and two backward…….
We frustrated and angry Australian citizens, recently emerged from a period wherein politics and cemented-on backward looking ideas prevailed. To cap it all, we found ourselves being governed by an incompetent, ruling coalition — a government that failed dismally to grapple with a number of important, growing issues. It lacked direction, as its combination of two political parties, Liberals and Nationals, quibbled and jostled among themselves. Led by a Prime Minister, Scott Morrison — himself a self-declared Pentecostal Christian, we found our highest office being occupied by a man who, on his election to government in 2019, stated that he was a “Believer in Miracles”.

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Gerry Dubbin

I write mainly on subjects and issues relating to the ongoing governance, international posture and foreign policy implications facing my country — Australia.