Visiionary leadership from the IPA.

You’ve got to hand it to the IPA. When it comes to nurturing deep thinkers, there’s no peer. And at the IPA, they know all about leadership. The federal government is about to spend 150 million on a marriage plebiscite. Marriage plebiscite’s are really profound ways of demonstrating leadership. Why pass legislation that reflects seventy percent of the electorates thinking when you can stymie social development for the sake of a few rusted on first century conservative ideologues. Who quite rightfully think that women are to be stoned, incarcerated and homesexuals are the closest thing you’ll get to a real “Animal Farm”. That’s where the IPA gets off. And the real issues facing western democracies, (countries run by big business and lobbyists) the questions of equity, health, education, science manufacturing and the environment are not important. Neither is the importation of ‘foreign’ cultural artifacts.

Gough Whitlam. Wrecklessly destroying our cultural heritage.

That’s the point the IPA is trying to make. When Gough purchased Blue Poles back in 73, he committed an act of cultural iconoclasm. He purchased a foreign, (American) painting. And ,If you look at it closely, nothing in the painting has anything to say about the glorious, noble, eternal, inviolate spirit of ANZAC. That’s the problem with foreign art, it doesn’t reflect the struggle of the people and the real principles of art, (we like to call it ‘kunst’) as a principle to protect and educate us as a baulwark against the tendencies of counter-cultural bolshevist-degenerative art. Though we’ve been culturally conditioned by american culture since the ‘talkies’ came into being, Mr Patterson is quite right to talk about Blue Poles being a waste of money. And now it’s worth 350 million, we should cash in, and send the fucking thing back. If our debt is growing by one billion dollars a day it’ll be the proverbial drop in the ocean. But someone has to get the ball rolling and make some tough decisions.

The submarines for example represent good value. James and his ilk were right to close down the car industry that employed tens of thousands so that every man woman and vertebrate in South Australia, could be guaranteed about a million each with the submarine contract. And though they’ll be out of date, ( they already are) they’re built to enshrine the spirit of aussie soldiers, sailors and airmen. It has been suggested though that submarines could encourage an environment that is conducive to “homosexuality” and the risk of gay marriage. But in the defense of this country, no price is too much to pay. The Adani coal-mine, is good value for money. Kill off sixty thousand jobs associated with tourism in Queensland and an entire biota, for a mine that may at it’s peak employ one thousand. And whilst we’re at it, it’ was good value the previous Victorian government spending all that money, (in excess of 250 million) on clean coal. Turned out to be a dud, but its sacred to the coal lobby. And finally, the decision to privatise vocational training. Very good business. Cost a couple of billion. Made a few rich, and a generation, (of non mates) poorer.

Arts Minister during the Whitlam era. Sir Leslie Patterson. A.O.

This is the way the kleptocracy works, We establish a non problem, we allow the kleprocracy to grab whatever public asset hasn’t been sold off and convert it into the only sure fire thing in this country, (now we’ve killed everything else) real estate. I agree with Patterson, Piss Blue Poles Off! Everything the Whitlam government did was one big mistake, And this ridiculously over- priced painting reminds us of how close we really got to a truly representative democracy. We don’t want that in Australia. And that’s the singular thing that makes the IPA progressive, They don’t like compulsory voting, and they don’t like the public at large. Because they know, what’s good for us. And that’s leadership. And if it cant be measured in dollars, it makes no cents!!!!!