It’s time we all stopped running around and slowed down for a bit. It’s time that we realised that having pride in the end result often means taking a few more steps to get there. It’s time that our media and our politicians realised that being faster isn’t necessarily being more efficient.

I’m not a huge fan of mainstream media these days. Check out the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald website (a once reputable news source) and you’ll find stories of celebrity scandal, and innocuous events that are written to invoke a reaction, but don’t actually contain any content. A noticeable exception to this has been the ABC News website – which has been responsible for producing factual and interesting news stories for some time now. But even they are not innocent of the desire to produce fast and punchy news stories.

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