Controversy

Many controversies are associated with the inappropriate use of particular words and phrases.

Do you have the maturity to address controversies appropriately?

Do you have the knowledge with which to address controversies appropriately?

Are you fully aware of the controversies associated with your own actions, and your inaction?

Are you fully aware of your duties regarding civility and the alleviation of needs, the management of controversies and the improvement of public policy?

What do you know about the history of political controversies in Australia? 

What do you know about the history of Middle Australia? 

What do you know about the history of moneyed Australia?

What do you know about the history of marginalised Australians and other people marginalised by Australian society and its government?

If you know something about the long political career of Australian career politician William McMahon, you will be aware that there is nothing new about leadership challenges, spills and various associated controversies in this part of the world.

How do you assess the media performance of politicians?

When listening to someone speak, do you sometimes mistake the word 'goal' for the word 'girl'?

Perhaps you are more interested in a dress than an address to the press.

Perhaps you are yet to become adequately aware of the fact that controversies are not news.  They are dramas.

To use insults for political gain, or market share, is to insult the public.

Insults may suitably provide dramatic effect on the Shakespearean stage but they have no place in the practice of democracy, especially from the floor of the Australian House of Representatives.

Politicians insult the public when they play to an audience of groupthinking sycophants.

What does the Australian Constitution say about such matters?

Nothing much, apparently.

You may have looked at Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 from time to time.

How does your enlightened patronage address controversies?

How should all servants of democracy address controversies?