The Americans who posted on the Old Fourth Turning forum I am in contact with, many of them argue that America's current crisis started as early as 2005. I find their arguments very compelling, seeing parallels between what happened in America in 2005 and Australia in 2009.
Anyway, when it comes to Australia, it started in early 2009, with specifically the Black Saturday Bushfires of February to March 2009. While bush-fires, even devastating ones are common in Australia. However, these bushfires woke up society up to sheer lack of foresight and preparation by the state government of Victoria (where the fires occurred) to anticipate such a disaster. The Victorian state government in response initiated a Royal Commission into the bush-fires which was unprecedented in history.
Also in 2009 the country's politics, particularly at the Federal level, started to experience radicalization, with the issue of Global Heating and measures to combat it is the main issue. The Rudd Labor government had been elected in a landslide in 2007, at the start of 2009, the government enjoyed a high level of popular support. However, in 2009 the government's popularity tanked, which led to Kevin Rudd's overthrow as Prime Minister and Labor leader in 2010.
There were various factors, including failure of a home insulation program that the government had introduced, the controversy over a tax on mining profits. There was also the failure of the government to secure passage of its Carbon Trading Scheme through the Senate. With both the Greens who thought it wasn’t radical enough and benefited the mining companies, along with the Conservative Parties, who became increasingly dominated by climate change opposing the legislation. Incidentally, Malcolm Turnbull who was Opposition leader in 2009, was deposed for supporting the Carbon Trading scheme. His replacement was Tony Abbott, who was The Tea Party in his ideology.
Indeed 2009 was a year for Australia, that everything wasn't the same anymore, the same went for 1990, 1968, 1950 and 1930 as well. Therefore; I can certainly see these years as those when a change in turnings occurred.
Anyway, when it comes to Australia, it started in early 2009, with specifically the Black Saturday Bushfires of February to March 2009. While bush-fires, even devastating ones are common in Australia. However, these bushfires woke up society up to sheer lack of foresight and preparation by the state government of Victoria (where the fires occurred) to anticipate such a disaster. The Victorian state government in response initiated a Royal Commission into the bush-fires which was unprecedented in history.
Also in 2009 the country's politics, particularly at the Federal level, started to experience radicalization, with the issue of Global Heating and measures to combat it is the main issue. The Rudd Labor government had been elected in a landslide in 2007, at the start of 2009, the government enjoyed a high level of popular support. However, in 2009 the government's popularity tanked, which led to Kevin Rudd's overthrow as Prime Minister and Labor leader in 2010.
There were various factors, including failure of a home insulation program that the government had introduced, the controversy over a tax on mining profits. There was also the failure of the government to secure passage of its Carbon Trading Scheme through the Senate. With both the Greens who thought it wasn’t radical enough and benefited the mining companies, along with the Conservative Parties, who became increasingly dominated by climate change opposing the legislation. Incidentally, Malcolm Turnbull who was Opposition leader in 2009, was deposed for supporting the Carbon Trading scheme. His replacement was Tony Abbott, who was The Tea Party in his ideology.
Indeed 2009 was a year for Australia, that everything wasn't the same anymore, the same went for 1990, 1968, 1950 and 1930 as well. Therefore; I can certainly see these years as those when a change in turnings occurred.