06 July 2006
Economic Rationalism a Matter of Faith?
The Australian Government has sacrificed millions of people on the altar of the market, preferred to help the rich over the poor, and has made human rights negotiable, outgoing Uniting Church president Dean Drayton said in his farewell speech yesterday.
Dr Drayton, the president of Australia's third-biggest church for the past three years, stepped down with a blast for the Government, calling it morally irresponsible for its ignorance about claimed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and payment of wheat bribes of a third of a billion dollars to Saddam Hussein.
"With dreadful irony, cereal ignorance shows what happens when serial ignorance takes the place of truth and justice."
He also said Australia was "sucking dry" its Pacific and regional neighbours to maintain its own lifestyle.
Government morally irresponsible
Dr Drayton, the president of Australia's third-biggest church for the past three years, stepped down with a blast for the Government, calling it morally irresponsible for its ignorance about claimed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and payment of wheat bribes of a third of a billion dollars to Saddam Hussein.
"With dreadful irony, cereal ignorance shows what happens when serial ignorance takes the place of truth and justice."
He also said Australia was "sucking dry" its Pacific and regional neighbours to maintain its own lifestyle.
Government morally irresponsible
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