Quiet Australia - Ignorance is bliss

What on earth can be said about unfolding policy crises that the Morrison government has just been given a thumping mandate to ignore? 

Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison - a "thumping mandate to ignore".

We can be confident that the government could not care less about the burst of self-harm right now on Manus Island, or about the dire state of the Great Barrier Reef. As the prime minister told his first Coalition party room meeting in Canberra today, last Saturday’s victory was for the “quiet Australians” who “just want to work hard and get ahead”. Quiet Australians, presumably, don’t care about asylum seekers or climate change. For noisy Australians, the temptation is to focus on what’s happening in the Opposition, which does care about these things. But with newly elected Opposition leader Anthony Albanese recognising that there is “conflict fatigue” in the air, it is doubtful whether Labor has much fight left in it either. What are our nation’s leaders going to talk about for the next three years, the footy?

Read the story from The Monthly by Paddy Manning - “Quiet Australia - Ignorance is bliss.”