"Generation Debt" Sunday Age (6/7) are the children of the deregulation, privatisation, corporatisation and globalisation revolution that has occurred in Australia during the last three decades. On every available statistical indicator, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in this country. More importantly, a revolution sponsored and financed by the parliamentary puppet masters – that small section of society that owns the means of production, distribution, exchange and communication, has destroyed the reforms that were carried out in Australia by the blood, sweat and tears of generations of Australians in the 19th and 20th century who, through workplace, community and political action, forced the state to create a social elevator that allowed Australians from all classes and all walks of life to develop their full potential despite their parents not having enough money to buy the best education money could buy.
In 2014 the Abbott led government's budget has finally opened the floodgates of a counter revolution led by those members of generation debt who are willing to use political, community and workplace action to ensure that once again the common wealth is used for the common good and governments (unlike the current government and the opposition) begin to look after the interests of the people they represent, not unaccountable corporations whose major responsibility is to create ever increasing profits for their major shareholders irrespective of the human, social, environmental and national cost.