Imagining better for Australia

The late Alan Ramsey feared that John Howard was “remaking Australia in his own miserable, disfigured image”. However, as Margo Kingston and Osman Faruqi have demonstrated, Howard failed because most of us are generous and thoughtful. Despite the malignant tenures of Howard, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison, most of us want action on climate change, political integrity, gender equality and Indigenous rights. We want more spent on education, health and unemployment support, and we don’t want tax cuts. Now Morrison is trying to remake Australia in his image: vacuous condescension, cringeworthy appeal to dinkum males, and toe-curling incuriosity. In the next election let’s vote according to the better angels of our nature.

– David Clarke, Battery Point, Tas