How to Destroy Australia - January 2024

Last October (2023), I had the great fortune to meet and spend a few minutes in discussion with Professor Ian Plimer. He graciously signed my copy of his book Green Murder that he had recently published. During our conversation, I asked him what his next book might be about. He replied that an idea he was working on was “How to Destroy Australia”.I don’t know if Professor Plimer is actually working on such a book, but it got me thinking. Here’s my list. (With apologies to Prof Plimer) How to ruin Australia (according to Howard, and in no particular order)

1. Destroy the family unit

Make Dads optional
Sublet the raising of children by institutions

Blur gender roles of parents
Destroy traditional family roles

Put Men and Women into competition with each other

Make children ignorant of religion and Judeo/Christian ethics and values

Leave it to schools to teach morals, virtue and ethics

Minimise child-to-grandparent experiences

Propagate and enforce an atmosphere of fear.

2. Destroy the honour and/or memory of previous generations

Pay lip service to our ANZACS and avoid teaching about freedom and liberty

Concentrate on the negative facets of our past and ignore the positive

Demonise our ancestors and ignore their sacrifices, courage and hard lives

Ignore and take for granted everything that they created and gifted to us. 

3. Destroy belief in true religion. 

Ridicule those who do believe

Ridicule entire institutions based on the actions of a few

Promote false religions of fear such as Climate Change

Worship the false deity that is the Environment

Ignore social gains brought to us by the Judeo/Christian beliefs

Ignore the doctrine that all people are created equal and have the same inalienable rights.

4. Destroy capitalism and free markets

Oversee massive debt and budget deficits

Trigger inflation to swallow government debt

Over-regulate the market

Distort markets with subsidies

Teach our children that capitalism is evil

Ignore massive humanity gains brought to us by free markets

Punish successful entrepreneurs with excessive taxation

Punish successful entrepreneurs with social condemnation

Attack the concept of private property

Stifle competition with regulations and unequal taxation and/or subsidies

Empower unelected bureaucrats to govern without consequence or recourse 

Enlarge government and the executive while paying the sector above-market wages 

Increase taxation to unreasonable levels which increases the need for coercion which lowers freedoms.

5. Make the necessities of life rare and expensive.

Make housing availability low and expensive

Make housing development difficult, bureaucratic and expensive

Make energy unreliable and unaffordable

Subsidise inefficient power generation

Tax cheap power generation 

Disrupt food supply chains making distribution delayed and expensive

Make water for producers difficult to obtain and expensive
Make food production, handling, distribution and retail prices expensive

Make food limited in variety, source and nutritional value.

6. Destroy education
Discourage free thought and discovery

Declare “the Science settled” and ignore the ‘scientific method’

Suppress or outright ban ideas that conflict with the common narrative

Ban books and ban movies

Re-write history and present new hypotheses as indisputable truth

Introduce sexually explicit literature to young people

Remove religion and religious instruction from schools.

7. Destroy the beauty in architecture

Make buildings bland and uninteresting

Turn buildings into monuments to wealth or technology, not beauty
Make new suburbs a carbon copy of the last

Build new suburbs totally bereft of, and considerable distance from, natural bushland

Make housing blocks a minimal size and fill it with a maximal house

Fill shopping centres with the same stores as every other centre

Make retail spaces too expensive for small and family businesses.

8. Destroy beauty in the arts. 

Make Visual arts ugly and uninterpretable
Make Music angry, violent and racist
Make Comedy bland and edgeless, and ban the offensive 

Use law and compulsion to change the language and meaning of words.

9. Suppress the People’s inalienable rights and freedoms

Restrict and censor free speech 

Restrict freedom of association

Restrict freedom of movement

Restrict private property rights

Track people or make people self-report when exercising these rights.

10. Destroy the worth of money

Print money and flush it through the economy

Flood selected markets with subsidies

Channel public money into untested and uncosted social welfare schemes

Spend taxpayer money where private enterprise can and would be spent

Print money to service debt

Use inflation as a debt reduction tool.

11. Destroy “Equality” by insisting on “Equity”

Abandon the principals of meritocracy

Demand equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity

Divide people by race, ethnicity, gender, etc and label it “inclusion”

12. Make Politicians wealthy 

Allow politicians to personally profit from their decisions around water, energy, mining

Rely on governments for our own safety, personal security, financial security, fixing the uncontrollable. 

13. Take everything we have for granted

Remove the tradition of family conversation, personal reflection, and giving thanks.

So there you go. By no means an exhaustive or complete list. Just the ones that are bugging me as I write. I’m sure there’s a plethora of ideas and life choices that are being attacked that I have not addressed here.

Australia is the greatest country on earth. But our Governments (the system, not necessarily the party in charge) are changing our society. As government expands it becomes, by virtue of the sheer amount of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, removed from the very ideals that have built Australia into what it is today. In Canberra, at Macquarie St, or at the location of your local council chambers, government is reaching further into our lives to control and coerce us into living the way that they think we should. They have dozens of departments, agencies and ministries that are dedicated to doing just that. 

It’s time to stand up. Say no to authoritarianism. Yes to freedom, liberty, individualism.  Nothing will change until we change the way we vote.

(Thank you David M for your help with this article, and Prof Plimer for the inspiration)