But it also it detracts from the achievements of the great Australians whose names adorn three of the six new ferries: heart surgeon Victor Chang; ophthalmologist Fred Hollows; and obstetrician Catherine Hamlin.
It's another sign that the majority of the voting public does not value experience nor knowledge, but instead enjoys novelty and idle frivolity coupled with indifference of the achievements of those who dare to expand and enrich our lives.
Horace Mann, who developed (amongst contemporary harsh criticism) the public schooling system, told those who graduated; "Be ashamed to die until you have made some victory for humanity".
Now instead, everybody seems to revel in novelty, and care nothing of anything but their own black mirror.
