The ad that hopefully everyone is talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4jI1atQwp4
A brilliant ad, it can't be used by The Greens (ABC policy I suppose); so we (all of us) need to pass it around.
Other Conversations:
In the last few weeks three voices have impressed me.
General Leahy's Lowy Institute Address is at:
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1343
(use Internet Explorer to download.) When are we at war? Who should be involved. It isn't just about big aeroplanes and submarines. What part do civilians play? I wait to hear more. We do waste so much money... and don't get to the underlying issues/causes....
The voice of reason: Patrick McGorry (Australian of the Year 2010) in The Age 23 July 2010. He concludes: "Middle Australia is entitled to ask why there is so little money for vital mental health services for Australians but unlimited funds to support a policy driven by emotion and optics. Why not inject some hard-nosed pragmatism into the discussion and take the paranoia out?" http://tinyurl.com/2489dvn His calm and deliberate tone cuts through the rhetoric that has perhaps seemed to be out of control during an election. Well worth reading the whole article!
http://tinyurl.com/23y8vnm The Edmund Rice Centre August newsletter. With words of encouragement: "In monitoring public debate in the past months we've seen a marked improvement in public discourse. Within the asylum seeker debate, there is a new wide-spread 'human rights literacy' at the broad grass-roots level. For the first time on this issue there is an ascendant strong community voice empowered to readily debunk the myths."
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