Australia Today

Day 717, 00:29 Published in Australia New Zealand by Shauny B

What is wrong with this country?

We talk about becoming a world power, a leader amongst nations. True, our days of isolationism are over. But we are constantly falling into line behind others. At first, we stuck to Indonesia. I don't think this was wrong, as at the time it made sense. But as the months dragged on, and it became clear that Indonesia had no intentions of giving us Western Australia, we should have begun to find other ways of winning her back. This might have been military, or otherwise. But, we did nothing. We sat, and we waited. And nothing happened.

Then, EDEN. America's Imperialist ideas have inflated its head, and thought that Australia would happily fall into line. There were complaints, but we did. We are now, diplomatically, a pawn of the EDEN alliance. And, what is worse, is that we will never be anything else under the current government. But I don't think it is too late for us.

We, as Australians, must band together, and prepare this country economically, politically and militarily for independence. True, we are not the biggest country, but we do now have a economically rich territory (in Western Australia), and we have the population to at least have a decent army.

Australians are some of the greatest people in the eWorld. We know when to talk about our differences, we do not hold back our thoughts from those at the top, and we surely do have one of the greatest nations on the ePlanet. We must harness that energy, that drive, and take our place in the sun. Now is the time, Australians!