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April 21, 2008

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Hail to the elite?

Does anyone else find the weekend Australian gabfest for 1,002 of the country's best and brightest disturbing? I see three main problems:

1. Out of population of 20-odd million, why are the ideas of this select group important enough for a government to devote time to?

2. Isn't it the job of political parties and governments to come up with these ideas, rather than outsourcing them?

3. Isn't there a touch of irony that it's the Labor Party that's organised this elitist exercise? And surely the biggest irony is that in this modern democracy we are getting government policy by unelected committee?

But what do I know, I wasn't invited.

 posted by Simon on 04.21.08 at 10:52 AM in the Assorted news category.




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