14 March

These marches are now nearly half a century old in Australia. The problem with protests for me is that I don't think they're anything really collective at all. They're a space for people to express their *individual* anger. They rarely lead to any longer term collective outcome. (Possibly why after nearly 50 years, the same marches are still happening.) Sure, they're literally a 'voice' - a lot of people yelling. But talk is cheap, as the saying goes. Without organisation, nothing changes. I'll watch with interest to see what practical organisation follows these marches, as I do with all protests. (I'm yet to see an example of it happening.) The idea that they raise 'awareness' which leads to action is historically disprovable, for just about every cause. Why I always suggest people join a union, forget the marches. Immediate, nation-shaking action would follow. We're poisoned by liberalism, which is silent on collective things, we literally have no idea how to practically organise anything as a group now, not even a cake stall. I don't think we see how we're prisoners of liberalism itself.