AUSSIE RUI(NATION)

Often it is the comments on the various blogs I read that hit the home-run. There are, particularly on conservative blogs, always the foul mouthed/brained Trolls (whose nom de plumes usually rather amusingly describe their predilections) who are often of insignificant intellect and a waste of space, but their are also the rather erudite and sometimes prescient commentators whose contribution bears repeating, as in the following remarks by 'R Blake' about our new 'Australian of the year' (as I now retire to wash my mouth out with soap):

David Morrison is a just another self-serving public servant, riding the wave of the new immoral paradigm. He has found himself a lucrative “social issues” gig and he’ll work it for everything it’s got, just like the others. These talkative media advocates tend to fit a certain personality type - i.e. fragile egos craving attention, emotional, committed, but with relatively low intelligence.
David Morrison, Elizabeth Broderick, Gillian Triggs, Rosie Batty - none of these could be remotely described as intellectual heavyweights. They are stock-standard, ideologically based misinformation disseminators, who crave appreciation and attention, especially media attention.
Bleating about social issues, regardless of the accuracy of their statements (because accuracy does not matter in the digital era), provides them with both financial and emotional sustenance. At the end of the day, this is what they seek.