Australians

Yesterday, the 300th daily presentation was displayed here.

How do you usually display love, and towards whom, or what, and where?

Do you love anything about Australia and/or Australians?

Perhaps you love one particular Australian, or a few Australians, or none at all.

Perhaps you love a particular part of Australia or Australia in its entirety, or no part of Australia at all.

What do you know about Australians in relation to experiences of love?

What do you know about Australians in relation to experiences of civility?

What do you know about Australians in relation to experiences of integrity?

Why is it so difficult for Australians to elect persons of integrity to positions of political influence?

What is your awareness of the structure of official and unofficial Australian governance?

What do you know about Australian standards of conduct? 

What is your acquaintance with the Australian Constitution?

What do you know about money in Australia?

What do you know about the consequences of landslide election wins in Australia?

Whether you regard yourself as an Australian or not, what is your knowledge of Australia and Australians? 

What, if anything, are you intending to offer the people of Australia, and how, and why, and when?

Perhaps you are mostly interested in whatever Australia may provide you, particularly in terms of your personal ambitions.

What should Australian citizens be entitled to receive from their federal government, and when?

Do you now have the time to learn about civility in Australia and other parts of the world?

If not, why are you here?

What have you been learning about civility over the past three hundred days, whether associated with Australian citizens or any other persons?

What have you been learning about the culture of Australian politics over the past few years?

Where have you been looking for civility in Australian politics, and in Australian society more generally, over recent years, and over recent decades? 

What have you been learning about Australians from Australian history and world history?

Who listens to intellectuals in Australia, even if those intellectuals are world-renowned scientists?

What do you know about democracy in Australia?

What do you know about campaigning for civility in Australia, and elsewhere? 

What do you know about policies in Australia, and associated with Australia and/or Australians?

The evidence from twitter and other social media locations strongly suggests that Australians are not particularly interested in civility.

If you disagree with those findings, perhaps you wish to show your evidence now.

Are you capable of understanding minds as they are understood by the persons possessing them?

Do you have a suitably scientific approach to gathering and assessing evidence?

What have you been learning about and through and from science over the past year, and how can you prove it?

What have you been learning from history over the past year, and how can you prove it?

What have you discovered about public life in Australia?

What do you know about the ways in which the mass media, social media and community media have shaped Australian society over the past two centuries or so?

In the first half of the 19th century, social media consisted mainly of writing letters and making sketches.

The second half of that century saw the gradual improvement of access to photographic services and telegraphy.

What, if anything, improved in the 20th century?

What, if anything, has improved in this century?

What is your contribution to the improvement of descriptions of various sorts?

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