Just when you think it is all quite wierd, we tumble further down the rabbit hole. So post Howard going on his little “kiss some Bush ass and help strongarm the US-AUS FTA in American political circles” trip, where he has completely! ignored any potential negative impact from the FTA on Australia (the results from the enquiry weren’t even published yet), he does it again. Howard and Bill Gates will be meeting a a secret location to do some sort of negotiation. Now if Gates was coming here to meet with someone in the ICT field, I could kind of understand, but WTF is our Prime Minister meeting with him for? How much do we need to see that corporate interests are driving politics in our ‘western’ cultures. Is Gates making some deal while Howard has some chance in implementing it? I mean Howard is after all completely in their pockets, and he may not be in power much longer (if we have anything to do with it right?). Standing back and looking at the last few years, we’ve seen a steady push away from socialism to corporatism, and in the last couple of years we have seen our democratically elected Prime Minister go completely against the wishes of the australian people several times. How much more will we put up with this blatant abuse of our system…
We all like to believe that at least we are a free politically, but are we, and how would we know.
Note – these are entirely my personal thoughts and don’t reflect on any organisation I am with :)>