Henry Melville
When a former Attorney-General – one forced to resign as deputy Premier for shamelessly lying to the Parliament – turns on a former chairman of the RPDC panel assessing the pulp mill alleging his sole motivation was to make money and claiming that he should have been capable of standing up to the bullies in government…..then a serious psychopathology is on display. For all the rottenness in this Tasmanian barrel thank goodness that some ‘good apples’ who have maintained their decorum and their ethics and challenged this outrageous deception that has typified Tasmania’s political history.
The breathtaking vindictiveness of these attacks undermines the wholesomeness of society at all levels. It is analogous the contagious cancer, which if left unchecked, viciously transmits from one diseased animal to an unsuspecting other.
THE TWO parliamentary committees investigating senior public appointments and the State’s need for anti-corruption or ethics commission are still taking evidence; already the six degrees of separation within the geopolitics of Tasmania are fully ‘on show’ in all their rawness.
What is it that drives ordinary people in powerful positions to become so deluded to their social responsibility?
Why has shameless deception and lying become the stock & trade of Tasmania political life?
Why is there a pathological determination to silence, ridicule and socially isolate any individual or group in Tasmania that dares to speak truth to power?
For those following the escapades of these ‘top-dog’ devils fight, scream and bicker over a lifeless body politic that they so decisively killed would be wondering, what obsesses those who fight so tenaciously to consume the last skerricks of flesh and bone?
What can be done?
This learnt aggressive behaviour will take well over a generation to rectify because it’s SO entrenched.
When a former Attorney-General – one forced to resign as deputy Premier for shamelessly lying to the Parliament – turns on a former chairman of the RPDC panel assessing the pulp mill alleging his sole motivation was to make money and claiming that he should have been capable of standing up to the bullies in government…..then a serious psychopathology on display.
For all the rottenness in this Tasmanian barrel thank goodness that some ‘good apples’ who have maintained their decorum and their ethics and challenged this outrageous deception that has typified Tasmania’s political history.
The breathtaking vindictiveness of these attacks undermines the wholesomeness of society at all levels. It is analogous the contagious cancer, which if left unchecked, viciously transmits from one diseased animal to an unsuspecting other.
Where else could is happen but Tasmania, the place where Nature itself is showing a precise allegory for this out-of-control dis-ease.
Be alert to the ways of these ‘Tasmanian devils’, lest you also are contaminated with this deadly contagion.
Henry Melville
