Victorians may be reacting badly to the extension of the Emergency because they know they only have themselves to blame and are feeling guilty.

Ageism rampant: until recently we were too expensive to house, clothe and feed decently. Now we are also too expensive to even keep alive

In case you forgot, this is how to stop passing the virus around.

Other countries have collected statues and memorials to their racist and colonial past into parks. Australia should do likewise.

Just who is being let loose from isolation, us, or the virus?

We can afford to be decent, or choose to be evil.

Pete not gay enough to vote for? Or just too conservative?

The Bills are a zero sum game where every Australian loses dignity, respect and basic rights. Perpetrators lose integrity and respect. Victims are demeaned and harmed. Respect for religion will diminish. Bystanders and legislators are complicit. There is a paucity of empathy and humanity and a sense of malice, behind the Bills.

It’s only fitting that the nation’s capital should be drenched in thick smoke while the country burns. Canberra; home to the Parliament of Australia, the city where politicians stamp their mark and…

It is time to build a New Australia.. Not a cheap plastic copy of America. Not a copy of the moth-eaten nursery toy that is Britain. But something that has never been tried before – a truly Australian Australia, fit for purpose, fit for the continent, fit for the climate, and fit for the future.