Australia - A Fool's Paradise

Maurice Carran

 

The world is changing. Never before in history have so many people experienced so much change in such a short space of time. China has emerged as a global power. In the west, people are losing faith in democracy. A global pandemic has exacerbated the deterioration of the economies of many democratic nations, along with their systems of government, justice, health, education and welfare structures.

The prosperity of the USA, the beacon of western democracy and capitalism, has been based on debt for the last fifty years.

The gap between rich and poor has reached absurd levels in many democratic nations. Environmentalists have moved from concern to panic as more people are subject to extreme weather conditions. Governments have allowed corporations to rape and pillage the planet in the name of greed and profit.

China will soon become the world’s largest economy to rival the United States, which has recently been subject to an attempted coup by a cheap and farcical would be fascist. There is a new ideological cold war, where communist regimes are challenging our democratic freedoms and global institutions.

Where does this leave Australia? If we are to be the greatest country in the world, Australia must also change. This change must be drastic. We must stand on our own two feet. A revolution is required. Revolutions always seem unlikely until they are upon us.

 

Inside the book

CHAPTER 1 THE INHABITANTS.
CHAPTER 2 SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER 3 DEMOCRACY FOR AUSTRALIA.
CHAPTER 4 THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRALIA.
CHAPTER 5 THE AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER 6 A DISILLUSIONED PEOPLE
CHAPTER 7 THE AUSTRALIAN LEADERS
CHAPTER 8 SCANDAL AFTER SCANDAL
CHAPTER 9 WHERE ARE WE GOING
CHAPTER 10 MONEY AND POLITICS
CHAPTER 11 COMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTER 12 THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA.
CHAPTER 13 TWENTY FIRST CENTURY JUSTICE
CHAPTER 14 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER 15 INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE
CHAPTER 16 THE HEALTH OF AUSTRALIANS
CHAPTER 17 AGED CARE
CHAPTER 18 TRANSPORTATION
CHAPTER 19 IMMIGRATION
CHAPTER 20 EDUCATION
CHAPTER 21 THE ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 22 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.
CHAPTER 23 DEFENCE.
CHAPTER 24 RELIGION.
CHAPTER 25 FACE THE MUSIC.
CHAPTER 26 THE FUTURE.
CHAPTER 27 THE ECONOMY.
CHAPTER 28 AUSTRALIAN TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
CHAPTER 29 THE TO DO.