GEORGE Orwell wrote two significant books, 1984 and Animal Farm.

In 1984, he predicted, among other things, that we would be sitting on chairs in front of a screen which would control our daily lives through Big Brother, who seeks power – not to benefit society, but for its own sake.

In the second book, Animal Farm, he predicted the “pigs” would control us and we would become like zombies, carrying out their requests as we sat in front of their screens.

The pigs promised better benefits as we worked harder, but there was always not enough output to meet their demands, so that society was kept on the breadline.

Anyone who objected was branded and provided with less and less of what the pigs had to offer. To be an individual was met with severe penalties.

Fast forward 70 years and most of Orwell’s predictions have come to pass.

In the cities, people are now living in concrete ant nests, and the daily lives of children are structured to the extent that they have no freedom of individual thought – as Dick Smith says, they are not “free-range kids”, but more like caged battery hens.

Our ridiculous politicians have allowed box-ticking, bureaucratic Orwellian monsters to rule them, and those politicians lack the ability to foresee the consequences of handing over unfettered power to these monsters.

Over thousands of years, history has shown that individuals with unfettered power will always abuse it.

A current case in point is the almost unfettered power of individuals within the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

Inspectors within the authority have powers which, in many cases, appoint them as investigators, judges, juries and executioners.

Many of the inspectors are incompetent buffoons who are causing huge problems throughout the industry.

The situation within the general aviation industry is now so dire that at least 50 per cent of the industry has closed down. 

Many engineers and flying schools have been sent to the wall and have shut up shop throughout the country, and the ridiculous ministers for transport still go to their bureaucrats for advice.

The bureaucratic, box-ticking Orwellian monsters and their over regulation are the ones who have caused the problem.

The minister must seek advice from the industry, not these monsters.

The piece of legislation in the public eye because of the Turnbull murder case at Moree is the native pasture legislation, which could best be described as a monstrous piece of work.

This legislation is without doubt the most unfair piece of work that was ever passed by the NSW parliament. 

It effectively confiscates farms for the benefit of the public without compensating the farmers who are bound to preserve land in its natural state.

Having purchased the land before the legislation was passed, with the intention of using the farm to make a living, many farmers now find themselves unable to do so.

The farmer is still bound to pay land rates and other charges, they must keep feral animals and weeds under control, but they are not allowed to farm the land.

While most of us would agree that we should preserve as much of the virgin land as possible, few would agree the burden of doing so should fall upon the owner, who is losing money hand over fist.

Imagine if you owned a block of eight flats and the government said you could only rent out four of them, and the other four were to be used, without compensation, for the benefit of the public – but you, the owner, were to pay rates and maintenance costs. Could you imagine the outcry?

The National Party is the worthless villain that allowed the native pasture legislation to remain on the books.

They had the power to stop or modify the act, but did nothing.

They must be targeted and frogmarched out of all of the parliaments.