greens blame greed, ignorance, page-3

Absolutely right! And it does break me up!
The place has become so parochial, so self-centered, so ego-centric, so afraid, whimpish, heartless, unimaginative, hateful of anyone with vision, anti-intellectual... "ordinary" is right. Macs Burger -no pickle please, with fries... So long as they can get that, it's all right!
Ask anyone what's the chimp's vision for Australia and see what they say.
What a great country or the road to T.S. Eliot's Wasteland!