Our political system is a mess. Politicians are by the nature of party politics, adversarial. In order to defray the legitimacy of each other, politicians are constantly looking to find some small crack in the veneer of the opposition parties or members and pick away until a festering sore appears, and often for no more than something that they might be guilty of themselves. Continue reading “Do we need Politicians?”
Why do we get dud politicians?
For some reason, Australia gets more than it’s fair share of dud politicians. What concerns me the most is that it is this bunch of dills are left in charge of Australia’s economy and our national security. One only has to look at the dud from Warringah who is at complete odds with the electorate on any number of things and in particular, same sex marriage, or even the bevy of beauties that got chucked out because they hold some connection to foreign citizenship. Continue reading “Why do we get dud politicians?”