Bloody hell you are blaming all these changes on the current board? I am sorry, but that's the way the whole Australian population has changed. You can't blame a cultural change on a group of board members.
No, the rot started with Dennis Fitzgerald & others, though most, if not almost everyone, including myself, did not see this rot coming. It has been very gradual and subtle. The love for the $$$$$ grew and grew and the ego of status, position, power, control and self-glory hinged to performance which = $$$$$$, eventually escalated into 3P. In hindsight, many of us are waking up to what has happened. We are all responsible for the growth of this terrible new culture.
The Commonwealth Of Australia is a private corporation, a piece of paper, conducting commercial business above, below, upon, within and around the lands of Gondwanaland, Arnhem Land, etc. The culture that stems out of this private corporation and all the states and territories it rules over, has caused a massive change to the standard of living of all its citizens (wards of the state).
A tiny extract from a booklet we wrote back in late 2006/completed early 2007 called "Corporation Australia":
"We have gone from being a country where taxes, up until the 1950s/early 1960s, were almost non-existent. We had a half a percent income tax and a half a percent sales tax that came and went. All the other direct and indirect taxes we are lumbered with today, did not exist. Superannuation and workers compensation id not exist either. We were able to do this because the government (the people) was still creating more common wealth money than borrowing Mammons (private corporation fiat/legal-tender/promises to pay/promissory notes).
But the weighted scale was slowly shifting in favour of Mammon to where it now hits the ground. A family of four is now paying taxes (direct and indirect) of over $600.00 per week. A loaf of sliced white bread is taxed at least six times by the time a consumer buys it. Where once an Australian dollar was valued at a dollar, today it is under 10c, possibly around 3c. The buying power of the dollar has been seriously diminished due to rapid inflation, particularly since the Whitlam era. Today, the average Australian family is in debt to the tune of at least 160% of their income."
These figures have gotten worse since 2006/2007. The economy is not natural, it is mechanical (a metaphor for man-made), and it needs men and women to operate it. Everything to do with money including outcomes happen by design.
There are forumites who get emotional (includes negative-destructive behaviour like ignorance, character assassination, ridicule, abusive, arrogant, etc) when I post such information in this Eels forum but I do this to try to open up the brain of anyone I can reach to show them the cause of cultural change and the connections of those responsible.
