Basic HTML Version
PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 4, 1983
PAGE 9
feels most vulnerable to the threat from Canberra. It is as big
as the whole of India, but has only 1,300,000 people. Its bur
geoning agricultural sector is already capable of feedTng the
whole of Europe. Its mineral wealth, especially in gold, n1ckle,
coal, iron ore and natural gas, is awe-inspiring, yet only a
quarter of its surface area has even been prospected.... Sir
Charles Court,
who retired
as
Premier
of WA
only
last year,
now
fears that the heavy hand of Canberra plus the growing power of
the unions and political Left, could wreck the economic future of
his state•.••
Striding about this dusty earth [in Western Australia], with what
is perhaps the world's richest concentration of minerals beneath
you, you become acutely conscious of the curious ! hilosophical
� which separates those who create the world's wea th and those
wfiose task it is to decide°"now to co?1SUme it--between enterprise
� gove'rnment7° Nowhere is the � broader � in Australia.
This great young nation was created by enterprise and is now in
danger of falling prey to government.
The outcome of that
struggle will determine the nature of Australia's future--or
whether
it
has
a
future.
Yes, Australia should be in its dynamic prime of life.
Instead, like
England, its parent, this chunk of contemporary Ephraim is growing prema
turely old. "Gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not"
(Hosea 7: 9) • Australia's full potential will have to await the coming
"Golden Age" of the millennium.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau