Reflection Day 21st December 2025

 We all hope and pray the assemblies of today to mark the week since Australia's Holocaust massacre.  will bring forth a new sense of unity and peace . 

Because so many now are not taught the basics of faith and even sneer at it as Laura Tingle has shown by representing the ABC Australia in dismissing it this week , it's not surprising that we now have , amongst the States, no agreement about the right to protest.

Some want permits and yet it's the often simple self righteous in Victoria who rightly insist that  "it is a right ".

What is therefore wrong and therefore misplaced non-concreteness in all this is that governments currently don't simply arrest ANYONE who provokes violence and anger (including verbal abuse signage ,coverings, dead animals ,rocks , noise ) so that the main aim of, if not complete silence , calm and standing tall and together ,is achieved.  The police themselves should not be blamed as they act only on instruction from government ministers.

Yes , the courts could be full, Mr Carbines, but so be it, for a while. All who get dragged there will get their chance there to say " who started it !" before a court of non angry persons , as is proper in our wonderful countries of freedom.

No more quickfixes please . We pray for a coming consensus http://ecomia.blogspot.com

We will wish to Heaven that all of you who go today will know the joy of standing in a silent ( mostly ) protest. We hope and pray it will be a calm but joyful day for all Australians !

The right to protest is a inherent right in any "household" because all "men"( including children) are created in God's image and the head ,at best, is only chairman .

Its not fighting with words that we should be afraid of , but not fighting with them.

This truth was in modern times reestablished by the protestant revolution who helped remind the fearful that it is every single person's right to think and act for themselves;

That is, even when the leadership don't know what they are doing. Go Aussies !


Attendum
Good to see BJ  using the term "motherhood statements "because that is what the current leadership gallery is full of 

What isn't precisely known or worked out, simply doesn't work, so don't let anyone get their knickers in a knot and think legislation will solve anything . Todays's calling is for a deeper reflection of what we together as Aussies are not facing. http://ondewolf.blogspot.com

How good and pleasant - like dew on a mountain in the morning

MONARCHY   Why has it survived the adoption of DEMOCRACY ? 

Like Kings David and Oliver, Queen's Elizabeth and Victoria knew, the unity that they saw at times amongst their people was one most of the precious things anyone could experience; and those real people particularly. 
I am not talking here about the many Empires that men create but ONLY those created by the miracle of birth and those experiences of UNITY created in the moment.

Those above , who found themselves leaders, more than most, knew it was precious both for how it made everyone feel good , how good it made them feel about their hard work , but also because they learned how fragile and easily lost it normally was. 
Monarchy has not only survived, but thrived in the new editions of democracy not only because it contains the seed of sustainable stuff but because it not only stands with the power of the Voices , but it shows the danger of only choosing only what is most popular at the time. 

Oliver Cromwell, more than any of the above, knew also of the huge cost. He also knew the huge risk of heredity being a guide. There appears to be nothing inherently good in the hereditary imperative. 
Cromwell denied himself the Crown and the next Crown refused to acknowledge his kingship.

He had the honor of uniting the warring tribes of England and witnessed before he died the demolition of the democratic principles he had lived for ; and hoped would set the country on a much more productive and satisfying path .He was the progenitor of the bicameral parliament which is the model of most parliamentary democracies of our day. 
Still ,well before our day of cancel culture  he was " cancelled ". 

 Democracy even today, stumbles like the many blind and arrogant persons who dare to tread where angels fear to tread.  Let every child know that democracy is fragile .
Our idealism can seems to stand in the way of recognizing a deeper truth ,
"That good times of settled sustainability do not come from one principle, but from a culture which can accept the power and wisdom of having both .
Despite democracies'  evolutionary history few advocates accept that good governance is what occurs when we are blessed not by one concept ( eg republic )  or another ( monarchy ) but by a combination of both ideals.

Those Impossible Dreams

Politics is always about the possible . Otherwise its not politics.
That doesn't stop people from dreaming. That's OK -Its good to dream
The real danger for ecomia is when leaders try to live out their dreams without knowing their limitations.
Leaders who ignore the danger of politicaceleste will not retain their role. Heavenly minded we like, but earthly use we depend on . Sustainable political leadership is totally dependant on making decisions in the real world.

This post is not to discourage dreaming because infact it has a place . See Neibuhr but a speight of Federal Government initiatives in terms of dreaming led policies on environmnet , education and health in February 2010, appear to have no clothes. Avoid laughter in the street - Get competent advice and ditch the quickfixers , and best of all keep blogging .

Would Regional Government really work ?

What do you think ? the main reason for this blog was to start some discussion. Personally , I don't think it would be cost effective mainly because Australia is such a urbanised country, and we can't really afford, humanly and practically to get rid of the States . There is value too in having "More rather than less advice " . The main reason I see for reform is the ongoing risk of a growing rural/urban and independance / dependance culture divide with the current system . Independant Senators, while useful, are not going to be there to secure the long term view is actually in view . Tell me the long term is anyone's view?

If USDA could establish a better framework ,long term , for rural political discussion ( not even happening now even amongst Nats ) I would think about it -Why ? Potential hub of the culture of innovation and long terem research Regional governence may help that ?

What do you think? up to you to add your thoughts please ! Would a sound federation make for an effective, and more reasonable, republic campaign? Copyright EA 10sept 2009

Regional disservices

One of the great threats to the federal dream is often not recognised - the danger that if regional services ( so well funded by Canberra) are not credible, the States , and others , will haul them back .
This is already happening ( DPI victorian rural research) and Canberra clearly doesn't care because rural people everywhere are suffering from the well paid , but not always responsible (moving on yet agin ) services the feds are creating .
For eg People from the big smoke looking for a promotion do a stint in some remote area( When does anyone get a promotion in a small country town -thankfully teachers do)
This needs to change . Its Time gov fund managers did what the people want - insist that so called responsible people live in the area and otherwise show their commitment to the area -its the sort of discriminating and rewards policy that us who are competent can handle .think of the fuel it would save alone ! Can Canberra handle such complexity? This very action might help save the federal dream from the white anting is it celarly getting at the moment !!!!!!
and why should Canberra care? - what represreetaion do small regional communities have in all this.

Close to home too are the wasted regional research dollar efforts ( non accountable soil and risk research and policy impact by some cmas ) and the silly technofix preoocupations of some politicians that will help drag all research back to the cities --as DPI seems to be doing.
I rememember about 15 years go advising the top university specialists in water and earth science research that the most efficient way to "get results" was NOT to create infiltration and runoff reserach groups ( something that still happened) but to drive integration of this complex earth science by building on regional research - unfortunately i lived in the country and my voice was not heard.

Tell us something we don't know Roxon

Protection policy talk is just that unless the labor party moves onto
professions policy

Take an example from our humorists in the background
As Shaun Macalief said so well on Newstopia last week -

For heavens' sake " put the mental back in environmental" - before we all go completely mad over more irrational and blinkered touting at windmills by politicians .

A lot of hot air and touting at windmills at this 20-20 ???

Diversity not Conformity

Scott Morrison ,Former State President of the NSW Liberals has helped Liberals regain some credibility about big picture politics this week by reminding Aussies of the basics of their freedom and the 'liberal' tradition . ,

Too many wannabes of the recent past and many in media church are too easily caught up in the shallow attractions of rawpower and the unity and conformity that that must go with it . Diversity is the price of freedom and intellectual openess; both for those who want to close the mind down, or open it up.
we can chose the boundaries, but others may disgree with us about just how far out we are prepared to set them !

"Australia is not a secular country — it is a free country," Hon Scott Morrison
"This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose. Secularism is just one. It has no greater claim than any other on our society.

"As US senator Joe Lieberman said, the constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not from religion."