A gobsmacking lack of intellectual heft in politics has us on a desperately unsustainable path, yet nobody is proposing to do anything meaningful about it.
After tomorrow, we’ll be left alone. Clive Palmer’s SMS spamming will cease. The Instagram feeds of marginal seat residents will be un-besieged by political advertising. Network television – for the Boomers still watching – will return to normal programming, as will Australia’s inexorable economic decline.
Joe AstonColumnistJoe Aston is the founder of Rampart and the best-selling author of The Chairman’s Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out. From 2012 to 2023, Joe helmed The Australian Financial Review’s Rear Window column. Email Joe at hello@rampart.news
