“Today we have an invisible governor-general, universities corrupted by their scrabbling for money, an underfunded ABC and a CSIRO where those who are genuinely concerned about global warming are expected to bite their tongues.
According to the latest polling, a majority of Australians accept that they are being governed by a divisive and mean-spirited leader, but apparently they no longer care. It’s a “Whatever it takes” world we live in now. If it takes lies to stay in power or bribes to sell our wheat, no matter.
We cling to our tenuous prosperity as though Howard were its only begetter and as if money really can buy us happiness (despite the clear evidence to the contrary, as Martin Seligman’s research shows).”
The above written by [Richard Walsh](http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/only-a-meaner-nation-could-turn-kerry-packer-into-a-secular-saint/2006/02/23/1140670202991.htm), who ran ACP for 12 years and was a director of PBL.
Couldn’t have put it better myself.