Australia sinks into a Dark Age

The Monty Python gang could not have put up a madder scene than that of ex-ABC journalist Maxine McKew, injected to the eyeballs with PC-class rhetoric, parading before the television cameras in the midst of the wild hysterical cheering of the people of Bennelong who had just black-marked themselves in Australia's history for committing the ultimate political insanity.

Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, amidst the embarrassing jeering of some supporters, paid tribute at the beginning of his victory speech to the contribution Prime Minister John Howard has made to Australia. This was to his credit. No decent sober-minded person, however much opposed to John Howard's conservative politics and policies, could deny that contribution.

It's indisputable that the Howard Government has left Australia economically strong with low inflation and low unemployment, supporting the claim that Australia has never been better off economically.

It is equally indisputable that John Howard has been holding the dam against the polluting social dogma of Political Correctness. If the people of Bennelong are like most Australians, then they are for the most part socially and morally conservative.

In letting themselves be sucked in by the PC-class's slander and myth-building propagated relentlessly through the Howard-hating media, public service and educational sector - and by the flying squads of lying radicals who descended on Bennelong - they have not only shown themselves to be ignorant in all senses of the word, but have opened themselves to what they would want least for themselves and their families in the coming years.

They may be delirious with pleasure at having been able to replace the detestable John Howard (and all his experience and achievement) with an inexperienced sloganising and cliche-driven ABC journalist, but I have no doubt it will be short-lived.

In the dark times ahead, I hope they will be able to live on the memory of what they have done.

Comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com