Humanity - I will miss you.

Australia is dying. Humanity is dying. The free spirited, amazing country I grew up in that always prided itself on offering a fair go has now become a country run by egotistical and self-righteous politicians, hell bent on ‘turning back the boats’, ‘offshore processing’ and filling their own pockets with funds from the public purse. (See Bronwyn Bishops 2014 travel expenses for a typical example of that.) Let’s for a second forget this stupidity:

• opposition leader Bill Shorten has failed in displaying any sign of spine regarding opposition to Tony Abbott on any important issues. (For example, storage of every Australian’s metadata at massive cost to the taxpayer because someone, somewhere ‘might’ be misusing the internet according to them).
• egregious amounts of money spent in national and international travel on both sides of politics.
• every promise made during an election is a blatant lie.
• killing off the Australian car industry (including hundreds of jobs) for the sake of a few million dollars.
• de-heritage listing sites that are sacred to Indigenous Australians.
• no longer supply fresh water to remote communities due to the ‘expense’.
• rolling back support for sustainable energies in favour of ‘big mining’ lining their pockets.
• petitioning to revoke citizenships for ‘suspected terrorists’ on the word of a single minister, at his personal discretion of course (Let me emphasise the word SUSPECTED, and the fact that ‘ministerial discretion’ could easily mean that if he doesn’t like that you said something bad about the state of Australian politics online you could be left stateless.)

For me, opposition leader Bill Shorten today announcing that Labor would support the Liberal stance of turning back the boats of asylum seekers means more than likely my future is far away from here. The mentality that would support any motion to turn back asylum seekers in leaky boats because they ‘aren’t in our waters’ is ludicrous.

The word humanity has always purported to represent innate and positive human qualities (things like compassion, kindness, consideration, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, mercy and generosity). Think about your part of the world. Is this how you would best describe humanity? Certainly I believe that more and more the word humanity is a misnomer. It has become its own antonym – a parody of its intentional meaning.

The mentality our short sighted government has that that these people, who have put their lives at risk for the possibility for a better life, should be sent back to the countries that have persecuted them to the point that they will risk themselves & their children on the off chance that they ‘might’, one day, have the chance to breathe free air is completely bereft of any humanity at all.