His point about speaking up potentially costing him, so his position in society is not a knock against him speaking up but adds more validity to it. Australia's government is off the hook insane with this nonsense. Amazing how "both sides" in politics are just as compromised and crooked as everywhere else, even those places where it seems like there are more than one side. (Canada, England, German, all the places with large "third parties" still look like two party rigged systems, just better disguised.)