For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.
Cory BernardiWhat I seek to do is to establish the facts as I see them, or as I understand them, and to engage in constructive dialogue to get good outcomes.
Cory BernardiThere seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.
Cory BernardiI can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.
Cory BernardiI've always said: if we ignore the issues that people want us to talk about, then you will have movements outside of the establishment political parties grow.
Cory BernardiFor all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.
Cory BernardiIn America we're seeing the emergence of Donald Trump, who's the anti-establishment candidate, if you will, who's bucking all the conventional political wisdom on the basis of the fact that so many Americans feel that they've been left behind by the political system and that it's working to entrench advantage by insiders, rather than advantage the people of that country.
Cory Bernardi