"Sorry, I don't buy that, so "yes" it is a conspiracy. They have been caught out exaggerating, lying and cheating too often."
I willing to bet every 'evidence'*cough/laugh* you have for this 'worldview' comes from:
a) newspapers b) blogs c) imagination
You have been bamboozled by shoncky media using logical fallacies, aka LIED to.
Time to wake up Australia...
