Nov 07
21
World Wide Web of Women
Slattery IT had an event tonight at the Sydney Museum. (Great venue by the way!)
After the panel discussion, which was excellent, I went across the road to have a drink with the people who had attended including the panelists.
I got talking to a group – not surprisingly women – and was quite amazed at the vehement support in the group that I talked to for either the Greens or for Labour. Not a bit of support for John Howard in the group.
The media advertising black out starts tonight on paid ads by the parties on mainstream traditional media. So for the next couple of days I am expecting to see every banner on the web being a political ad, and a lot of video.
Roll on Saturday and the election!
And by the way if you want to see something really good watch Bob Hawke explain some home truths about the Howard years. I was talking to a lady at the panel discussion who reads this blog from time to time about my politics. We both agreed: You might as well be clear about where you stand. With information technology the powers that be will find out anyway. My views are very clear. They are not about left or right. They are about right and wrong. And Howard has led this country to a place where the nation's brand equity has been squandered; where our morality is now in tatters, and where the country has been allowed to become corrupt in its abiding interest in self.
I remember when I was about 14 years old in South Africa. A friend's parents took us to see a movie that was about the lack of morality associated with racism. I don't remember the name of the movie, but I remember that it had an effect on me.
Howard couldn't even say, “Sorry” to the aboriginal people of Australia. I am sure he means well. But then that's what Pinochet would have said too, probably.
I am not particularly enthusiastic about Rudd being a fundamentalist Christian either. But change is what we have before us right now. We need to embrace that and take the opportunity.
If Labour gets in, with the Senate balance of power held by the Greens, we have a short window of time available to us in this country to see change take place. If Labour doesn't take the opportunity to maximise the potential of that change they will let us all down. Hopefully it will be change that doesn't take the country further into hock to America.