Where's the policy? (Election 07)

Is it just me, or has the Australian election campaign deteriorated into a X amount of $ for this, Y amount for that? Where are the actual policies?

I don't follow the election news intensely, but I try to keep up. Some of the blame has to lie with the news organisations. But then again, aren't they just delivering what people want to hear? In an earlier time they would have felt the obligation to actually inform the public rather than just deliverer audiences to advertisements. So maybe it is actually the people's fault. If the general population were more politically aware/concerned then the news would have to deliver policy details instead of dollar amounts in a sound bite.

But why are people so depoliticised? I don't have any evidence for this, just a suspicion, but it seems to me that since The Vietnam War, there has been a deliberate attempt by Western governments/media (cause they are inseparable now) to depoliticise the general public. If no one knows or cares what you are doing then they won't revolt.

So we have now gone full circle, the blame is back on the politicians. If there is one thing I am sure of though, it is that the last thing that the modern Western political leaders want to do is repoliticise the population, in particular the youth.

APEC is a joke

Australia is holding the APEC summit in Sydney this week. Apart from APEC being a joke generally by pretending to be in the interest of common people, this whole debacle with The Chaser penetrating the incredibly expensive security has deservedly so exposed how bumblingly inefficient, docile and wasteful the modern business/political overly bureaucratic culture is.

Good on the guys from The Chaser. If legal action goes any further against them, I believe nation wide protest will be in order.