It’s sad that we no longer have any ability as a community to hold our leaders accountable for their words or promises. Take our current Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd and his current decision to spend $38 million dollars on an advertising campaign supporting his new resources company taxation. Quite apart from the fact that the application of simple logic would tell any thinking human being that the expenditure is immoral …
He was asked in 2007 if he would resign if he had not delivered this system within his first term.
Mr Rudd replied: “In terms of establishing the office of the auditor-general with clear-cut guidelines to whom every television campaign is submitted for approval before that television campaign is implemented, you have my absolute, 100 per cent guarantee that that will occur.
“One hundred per cent guarantee and each one of you here can hold me accountable for that.”
But two months ago the auditor-general was sidelined from the job.
Somehow, when you have achieved power the phrase “one hundred percent guarantee” actually means, well nothing I guess!
Anyone got any idea how we can elect honest persons to be our leaders, and failing that, how do we force them to remain honest, or depart? As far as I am aware Rudd hasn’t even felt the need to explain his change of heart.
Unfortunately, those who aspire to power seem to be the ones who know that those over whom they exercise power are totally apathetic.
