Tackling the elephant

Let’s cut to the chase; Australian political leadership must find the stomach to deal with the core issue facing this country. No more excuses.Since the world’s longest election, we’ve been obsessed with secondary and peripheral topics of gender equality, free speech, juvenile detention and banking scrutiny. Of course our politicians are far more adept and comfortable handling the peripheral, because the repercussions are not as severe… and the subject only rankles with a minority.