Scandals

How do you assess the causes of various scandals in Australia, and elsewhere?

When does income inequality become scandalous, in your view?

When does wealth inequality become scandalous, in your view?

When does expenditure inequality become scandalous, in your view? 

You may be aware that money is involved in many scandals, as are various abuses of power associated with both.

The never-ending scandals, of every sort, retraumatise emotionally exhausted people.

If you are an Australian politician, you may have attended empathy lessons, most probably to lessen the scandal of your prior conduct. 

When scandals are prevalent and self-evident, good people are shocked.  But how do most people transform their feelings of shock into worthwhile contributions to the improvement of societies?

When does age-related inequality become scandalous, in your view?

When does ability-related inequality become scandalous, in your view?

When does gender inequality become scandalous, in your view?

When does racial inequality become scandalous, in your view?

You may already know more than enough about the scandalous 2021 Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations.

Perhaps you find scandals, of any sort, quite titillating and possibly even extraordinarily amusing.

Perhaps you do not care that so many scandals have victims associated with them, including people whose lives have been ruined through inappropriate, and therefore traumatising, reporting through the media.

Scandals are often played as numbers games of one sort or another.  They arise through an absence of ethics.

In Australia, being a political staffer, at public expense, working for the benefit of a political agenda, not the public interest, is viewed as a stepping stone towards a seat in parliament.  Yet some of those people will never be appropriate representatives of the people.

Scandals are often associated with cover-ups.

Yet a government based on honesty and civility would be one of appropriate openness and dignity.

How do you assess whether people with power are deliberately hiding the truth?

What have you attempted to learn from history about scandals?

How do you make comparisons between one context and another?

Scandals usually reveal hypocrisy and/or an entire lack of principles.

Ex-politicians often seek lucrative jobs after their careers crash.  It happens in Britain.  It happens in Australia.  It probably happens everywhere.

What do you know about the Greensill scandal? 

What do you know about systemically important financial institutions, including bulge bracket banks?

What is your acquaintance with white-collar crime in Australia, whether involving casinos, banks, tax offices, political parties, insurance companies or the stock market?

What is your acquaintance with money laundering in Australia, whether performed through casinos or through banks or through the housing market or through political parties?  

Like financial scandals, political scandals take many forms, including those unlikely to be reported appropriately through the news media.  That is why Civility Today is here now to improve the situation.

But do you want the situation to improve?