PROGRESS MEANS BAD THINGS HAPPENING SOONER

IN his article “Keep it real PM” (GA 27/9), Ross Mueller covered numerous topics.

He referred to past moratoriums, and “lines in the sand” and lauded the achievements of “Progressives” (with whom he presumably includes himself).

As an older Australian I consider myself blessed that I lived in a place and a time where nobody locked their houses up, who blithely left their car keys in the ignition when in town, who thought that drugs were something you got from the chemist, and probably didn’t know what the word graffiti meant.

Even as late as the 1970s I had no qualms about letting my young children run around the streets of Belmont at night until it became dark.

But we all know now none of those things happen anymore.

So if today’s Australian society is the end result of “Progressives” preaching their gospel from their graffiti polluted, inner city ghettos, I can only paraphrase Paul Keating’s comment about 4WDs in the city: “A pox on progressives.”

Progressives have wrecked the country in considerable part and seemingly have every intention of continuing to do so.

I also remember an observation made to me by another older Australian a while back: “Progress — that word that so aptly describes bad things happening sooner.” And so it goes on, cry beloved country. David Fox, Belmont