(INTERVAL) NUISANCE PERIOD ALMOST OVER
Please be patient.
The names of the Thousand Best And Brightest should be out within the next week or so.
The Nuisance Period leading up to the Australia 2020 Summit will soon be over and so the “pick me!” shenanegans will soon be over too .... THEN we can all get down to the serious business of working out what policies can get us a better future.
I said WE and I meant WE!
Just because you haven't been invited to waste a heap of your own money [if you had any, that is] to attend this particular talk-fest in Canberra in a few weeks time, it doesn't mean you have to just sit in a corner, keep your mouth shut and do as you are told.
If you have an opinion on what policies would help you or harm you in the future – get up and say so! If not here on the Counter-Summit blog then in dozens and dozens of other places: among your friends and colleagues, on talk-back radio, in letters-to-the-editor, in chat-rooms, at school, in public meetings, in the pub or the club, in letters to your council or your local parliamentarian.
Don't allow yourself to be intimidated into silence by “your betters”[wtf??] or by today's version of the Bunyip Aristocracy.
You haven't surrendered your citizenship, have you? You haven't signed a contract to enter serfdom, have you?
Then you have just as much right to have an opinion or have a bright idea – and to say so – as any of the usual bunch of scoundrels, failures and boofheads whose silly ideas are given such undue prominence in the news media.
Don't be shy.
Stand up.
Speak up.
We all want to hear what you think.
2 comments:
For the 20 million people not invited to the 2020 Summit, the online community created a wiki so people across Australia could post, discuss, and vote on the best ideas for the country. It’s like a virtual 2020 Summit for the whole country. It’s totally a grassroots effort. It’s free, can be anonymous, and isn’t being sponsored by any political party, corporation, union, or special interests. It’s just people who want to encourage an online national brainstorming session.
The site is at http://ozideas.wetpaint.com/?t=anon. There are pages for over 20 different issues and even an online petition to get the best ideas heard at the actual Summit.
So far, we’ve had over 190 ideas submitted, 3000 unique visitors and 20,000 pages views.
The more people know about it, the more ideas are submitted, and the better the discussion.
For your amusement and that of the public’s, I also created a funny web “commercial” for the site – it’s of Kevin Rudd, Brendan Nelson, and Peter Garrett break dancing. Check that out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQZa17-Dt_4.
It’s a great way for everyone to participate in the summit.
Jim Rettew
http://ozideas.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
Rat2;
Seen it - and recommended it too. :-)
It is so good a site that I hope you keep it going well after the Australia 2020 Summit has finished.
Astonished that several thousand people hadn't signed your excellent petition to have those ideas mentioned.
Shall have to join the wiki soon [not this late tonight though].
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