monotonehell wrote:The Federal Police need a national ICAC branch which covers all states, territories and Federal politicians. So sick of the rot. It's nation wide and across all parties.
That's what happens when you only have elections every few years, and there's only really two parties which have any real potential to form government.
It's not what I call democracy, and we are certainly capable of doing much better. With the technology we have these days there's no reason why we couldn't completely reinvent democracy for the 21st century.
1. Abolish state and local governments. Have just one government for Australia, but still have MPs based in each local area to give representation on local issues. The massive amount of money saved by eliminating duplication of services would enable both taxes and debts to be slashed!
2.Give everyone the right to vote on EVERY government decision (securely online) and if you don't exercise your right on a given issue, your local MP votes for you.
3. No fixed term in government. All MPs / senators remain in power only so long as they have the support of the majority of voters. (That plan needs a lot of fleshing out I know, but it could be done in such a way that it would work).
4. Breaking a promise made publicly to voters would result in automatic, immediate, and permanent expulsion from politics. No second chances!
5. No more lifelong benefits to politicians. Once they leave their job they can look for another, or if they have reached retirement age they can live off their pension / super / savings like the rest of us.
6. Get governments out of things that really don't need to concern them. Focus only on providing essential services in the interests of voters. And provide those services, rather than force us all to pay more by privatising them!
7. Slash wastage of money on unnecessary foreign aid, welfare, and all the many other things they throw our money away on.