Political Leaders Should Strive to Slay the Beast of Entitlement

Published on April 8, 2024

Commentary When he was prime minister, the Liberal Party’s John Howard regularly warned colleagues against hubris. I suspect that he was reminding himself as much as his fellow MPs. Hubris was a cardinal sin for the ancient Greeks. It can take a variety of forms. At its basic, it denotes excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence and complacency, often associated with arrogance. It can also involve the incapacity of working in common with colleagues. There are signs of hubris amongst current government ministers, no more so than Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s claims about electric vehicles. The revelation that both the prime minister and the energy minister each took a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) jet from Sydney to Scone in Hunter Valley, New South Wales (NSW), for a recent announcement is but the latest incident....

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