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Australia Ripe for Bloody Revolution
 Australians are now more in fundamental disagreement with their government than at any time since the end of the Second World War,
in fact, according to sociologist Brian Goodbloke of Sydney University, the country could be ripe for a bloody revolution.
The image of Australians as an easy going, welcoming, environmentally conscious people is accepted worldwide, but, says Dr Goodbloke, in Australia today that reality is only present on an individual level. The relationship between the individual and government has all but broken down.
"Individually Ozzies are, as they're known to be, really mellow people." writes Goodbloke in his report. "They avoid being racist, they're nice to their neighbours, they have "Free Tibet" stickers on their cars, they sort their trash into recyclables and non recyclables, and they ride around on pollution-free mountain bikes. They’re also famous for letting others do pretty much whatever they want. On an individual level they are quite astoundingly faithful to their self-image."
"However," continues Goodbloke. "Through some erring of the democratic process their governmental system has diverged completely from individual values... In fact, rarely has such divergence been seen in a Democratic nation."
"Australia today is quite openly hostile to immigrants. This causes immense psychological strife to their own population, made up almost entirely of immigrants.”
“Despite Australians individually being extremely environmentally conscious, the government couldn't give a damn about the environment and to prove it exports more weapons and power station grade uranium than any other country in the world, has opted out of the Kyoto protocol, produces all its power by burning coal and despite having millions of square miles of empty sun filled space has no solar power or renewable programs at all."
Another example Goodbloke says is social harmony.
"Aussies just want to get on with their neighbours, the country has a very low neighbor-strife index. But the government is up for any fight going anywhere in the world, whether it involves them or not, they want to be involved."
And while Ozzies really don't, Goodbloke says, give a damn on an individual level, how those around them choose to live their lives, their elected government is now fighting almost every individual citizen by imposing an ever growing list of authorized and prohibited behaviour.
Goodbloke cites Draconian law enforcement on speed limits, smoking zones, swimming pool barriers and even obligatory protection gear for cyclists as examples.
According to Goodbloke, based upon his patented method of calculating political and social divergence, Australia today scores a divergence factor of 11.4.
This compares with only 8.3 currently in the UK and 6.2 in the US. Since 1901 the only country to have scored higher than 11.4 was the Soviet Union a year before disintegration of the communist block.
So could Australia be heading for a Revolution?
"If Howard, the PM doesn't make some serious efforts to do what people actually want, the whole thing could blow...” says Goodbloke.
"It could be a terrifying and bloody revolution... It is not beyond the realm of the possible to imagine people smashing their swimming pool barriers, beating government employees with their cycle helmets and smashing speed cameras to the ground. This is all reality, it could all happen."
The report concludes with some sobering advice for the PM.
"However if he (The prime minister) manages to make just a couple of concessions, if he does what the people actually want on just one of two minor issues he could make it through to next summer."
According to Goodbloke, if John Howard can get that far he's safe. "People will just go to the beach and forget about it all." He says
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