Is Australia a ship of materialistic, short-sighted fools? And if caring about the poor, the planet and the future make you an ‘elite’, is that label such a bad thing?

David Williamson has made my day by venting his spleen and getting paid by Kerry Packer to do it…

Cruise Ship Australia is in fact living off resources that took billions of years to accumulate. We’re eating up our past at a prodigious rate. Our grandchildren won’t have it nearly as easily as we have.

Read the whole column at The Bulletin website.