From 2005 to today perceptions of public safety in Australia have declined from 91% to 51%, according to ABS data. This is despite new frameworks for understanding public safety and policies designed to neuter any “unacceptable” risks.
Public safety risk was once defined by such things as nuclear war, car accidents and fire in buildings, but in today’s “modern Australia” risk is measured by how people feel about amorphous and insubstantial boogie men like White Australia, who say things people feel like they aren’t allowed to even think. Meanwhile gambling advertisers are given a free pass to feed off those with low impulse control.
In a recent interview with the ABC, the NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon stated that the mandate of NSW Police is to maintain public safety. It is unclear whether he was referring to reducing actual injury and mortality rates by enforcing laws, or whether he considers public safety merely a public relations issue and feels it is the duty of the police to manage how people feel, regardless of their capacity to reason in regards to threats to their safety.
Public safety has obviously become a catch-all legal mechanism for the enforcement of unconstitutional policies intentionally developed to corrupt the political process.
If public safety was the primary motivator and was measured by actuaries calculating degrees of harm and employing the professional standards required by large mining or insurance companies, many of the actions politicians and police collaborate in imposing would be dismissed.
At least 65% of Australians want reduced immigration, largely due to perceived risk of actual harm such as rape, burglary and assault. Add to this the perceived threat of reduced quality of life as a result of higher prices, less housing and increased competition for employment and you have what could be considered the greatest threat to public safety our country has ever faced being identified by the population for the policy makers.
Yet they choose to ignore this risk, and focus on the “dangers” of free speech and political protest.
It is important to remember that politicians are in the business of struggling for power, and will use cheap tricks to hold onto whatever scraps of authority they can gain to advance the will of the lobby groups whom they serve.
Given that Australians’ trust in government is at an all-time low, it cannot be argued that the traitors running our country are serving the Australian people. Australians are not fools and they can see the betrayal being enacted in our parliament.
It is well beyond time for the false promise of public safety to be abandoned for the sake of the freedom we have for a century flourished within.
Until the parliament starts to listen to the people they serve, they themselves will continue to be the most clear and present danger to the well-being and public safety of Australians.
Header image: African males arrested in an alleged “kill car” in Sydney this week (9News).
