Growing Up

It is time Australia grew up as a nation.

I heard it today from radical ex PM Malcolm Fraser in an interview. I think I came across it on Grist.

He has written a book soon to be published. He says Australia has never made its own foreign policy, being firstly a puppet of Britain from Federation up to after WW2, then the US since.

I agree entirely. He goes further, saying over the last 20 years the US has taken our sovereignty and we need to take it back and distance ourselves from US foreign policy, including kicking them out of Pine Gap and the Darwin base.

It is time we grew up. Make our own decisions. Become a citizen of the world, not a US sycophant.

Talking about growing up,  ANZAC DAY 2015 should be our last.

Move on, grow up. It's myth and a nonsense from a bygone time.

Grow up Australia.

"I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we are shocked with cannibalism." Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898- 1978)