For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas … - Cory Bernardi

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If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

Cory Bernardi

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.

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The media, I think, have to be accountable for some of the misdirection that is put forward in politics in some of the misapprehension, maybe even some of the lack of confidence in the political process. Because the most benign, frank thought can be twisted and portrayed as something that it really wasn't intended to.

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I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.

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Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians believe that Jesus died so we may live. He took upon himself our sins so that we may be forgiven and thereby gave us a model of forgiveness for others. This is a cycle that allows civility and progress in the face of man's faults and imperfectability.

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I'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.

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What 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.

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