Compliant, or Complicit?

Compliant, or Complicit?

From the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare:

Older people make up a considerable proportion of Australia’s population—in 2017, over 1 in 7 people were aged 65 and over.

An interesting statistic, but is it of any use when we sit silently by impersonating compliant voters. Should we not be taking our concerns to our elected members of parliament. Is this what we worked all our lives for, to be tossed aside, rendered homeless by rising property prices, fuelled by the wealthy?

Did we compliantly pay our taxes, so the government could favour balancing the budget over the care of the disabled, simply because it’s politically expedient?

How many of us actually know the identity of the Australian Tax Office whistleblower? What did he disclose, and do we as taxpayers have the right to know, again we keep our silence just like the compliant citizens we have become.

The Afghanistan whistleblower. War is a terrible thing, killing another human being is inhuman in itself, we need to fully understand the consequences of war, and trauma faced by those sent to fight it. It’s in the public interest to know these details, unsavoury as they might be, yet the man bringing it to our attention now faces the Supreme Court, charged with five offences including theft, unlawfully giving information under the Defence Act, and disclosing information under the Commonwealth Crimes Act. This case led to an Australian Federal Police raid on the ABC's headquarters in Sydney earlier this year, which is now the subject of separate Federal Court action.

Just where did we allow “Public Interest” to be replaced by “Political interest?” What laws are our Federal Departments operating under, and whose interests are they protecting?”

Our have we become so compliant, we are now ourselves complicit?