The Longest Decade Quotes

“The boom has not secured social cohesion. Instead, it has encouraged a mass outbreak of social climbing. Deregulation has taught Australians to see their self-worth through bricks-and-mortar and the size of the bribe they can extract from government. Avarice is the new black, and the political system has sanctified it with the term ‘aspirational voting’.”
― George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade

“Genuine change, in the national interest, comes about only when a government forces its rusted-on supporters to give something up — as the coalition did on guns, and Labor did on protection.”
― George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade

“Ever wonder why voters never thank governments for giving them tax cuts? Because it’s their money, and it doesn’t buy what it used to.”
― George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade