Last redoubt of the globalists

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Australia is the last redoubt of the globalists. All we do is fret over other people’s problems while our living standards and values are slaughtered.

This is not coincidental. It is the evolution of a system of mind control, many years in the making, much worse in Australia than anywhere else I can think of.

It has absolutely nothing to do with making the world a better place.

Issues like Palestine, climate change, geopolitics, and immigration are the sacred cows of the new globalists.

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But their prominence comes at the expense of everything that actually matters: local living standards, liberalism, social cohesion and policy efficacy.

All of these are in chaotic decline as the tyranny of new globalism takes over. Or is it the other way around? I can’t tell.

Consider the following. The national media and politics are currently consumed by debate around:

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  • One of the smallest countries on earth, which has no practical reference to Australia.
  • A productivity roundtable that refuses to mention the only word that matters: immigration.
  • Real estate underquoting that matters naught to the generational house price conflict.
  • An energy transition that refuses to mention gas, Australia’s only answer to the energy transition.
  • Never mentioning China.

The vested interests that run Australia have engineered the perfect Brave New World of media and political self-censorship.

Bizarrely, its most vociferous supporters are the self-destructive children who will suffer most from each policy failure.

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This is a scale of brainwashing that is difficult to describe, cookie-cut in universities that feast on foreign student trade, loved by property-centric media profits, and mercilessly exploited by vapid politicians.

It is a terrible failure of reason and imagination that guarantees the ongoing decline of the Australian nation and self.

Soon, nobody will even be left to record it.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.