The Nanny State is Naughty (PART 1)

The Nanny State is Naughty (PART 1)




Dear Well Meaning Lefty writes: I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me!                  Dorothea Mackellar, 1904 Those famous words, written shortly after federation, capture the essence of the adventurous Australian spirit. To experience the beauty of this sunburnt country, we’ve had to expose ourselves to its droughts and flooding rains, its terror and ragged mountain ranges. We’ve learned…