I\u2019m sure Bruce Pascoe deserves more awards than Bettina Arndt does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If he\u2019s attending to fire near his home at Gypsy Point, Mallacoota<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and can\u2019t appear at scheduled literary events through sheer exhaustion<\/p>\n\n\n\n
it is truly shameful\u2013he\u2019s one big truth teller, a precious Australian icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Dutton, tarnishing his name and testing allegations of fraud?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can scarcely believe this. The police say there\u2019s no case to answer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(the Age<\/em> today). I trust somebody punished \u201cthe informant\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shock jocks get plenty of airtime broadcasting evil and prejudice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They have no pact with the truth and don\u2019t apologise in any case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If our representative government is trying to smear Uncle Bruce<\/p>\n\n\n\n Something needs to change, unless we\u2019re already in the state of Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We spoke up clearly in favour of equal marriage rights recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This suggests we are good people, strongly believing in social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or are Australians silly, a selfish vacant lot; blaming politicians; <\/p>\n\n\n\n ignoring climate and waiting to be forced to vote on a cunning leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Government by endless strings of royal commission is another folly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We deserve real policies to choose from and faithful action on these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is democracy about anyway? Please just get on with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our huge, professional public service has enormous tasks before it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m sure Bruce Pascoe deserves more awards than Bettina Arndt does. If he\u2019s attending to fire near his home at Gypsy Point, Mallacoota and can\u2019t appear at scheduled literary events through sheer exhaustion it is truly shameful\u2013he\u2019s one big truth … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}