I can just picture, if Jim Hacker had proposed this, Sir Humphrey responding with "that's a very courageous decision, Minister"
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important.
The public funding produces considerable complacency, and not a little failure of accountability to members.
Some years ago, a legal action against Pauline Hanson followed state Electoral Office allegations that she was running a pseudo-political party she entirely controlled, designed to milk into her own pocket, the public funding coming from the votes she was gathering.
The premise is that parties were democratic structures, subject to the law, accountable to party memberships, receiving grants which should be directed towards the party's interests.
One must wonder whether the major parties could live up to such requirements.
This is not a worry that funds are diverted to improper purposes. It is, instead a concern that the money is spent without any serious regard to supposedly democratic and accountable membership structure.
The members, simply, have no say at all. Those who demanded some right to participate in what was done would be quickly shoved out of the way.
Insiders, indeed, refer to parties as "brands", not as organic organisations subject to deliberately difficult processes of making decisions, allowing a maximum of participation, if with a system of battening down the hatches once binding decisions are arrived at.
The increasing lack of relevance and respect accorded to party membership, or democracy within parties, fits into a general pattern of less and less public participation in much community activity.
Most could be forgiven for giving up involvement. Monthly party meetings at 8.30pm in the public library are a deadly bore, especially to the young or people leading busy lives.
The pattern of participation was set in about 1890 and much has changed in society since.
Oddly, all the modern technology and the internet ought to be improving communication and participation.
But it isn't, and sporting clubs and cultural organisations suffer as much as political parties.
Some subjects which can attract the passions - the environment, the need for action on climate change, events in the Middle East and education for example. Matters may mobilise people, not into party branches but on to the streets. It is vital that parties adapt.
But the sad thing is that most of the major parties are not very interested in broadening their bases, increasing their memberships, or having debates about what ought to be done.
They might, in theory, agree on the need for it, but the idea of more consultation, more debate, more open government excites no enthusiasm whatever, from the prime minister down.
They do not see it as in their real interest. They are probably right, because a good many representatives would not be in Parliament were their work to be subject to better public scrutiny.
But it is not merely a matter of whether politicians can shelter themselves from the public.
A crisis of legitimacy and authority is involved. Government is getting more difficult. Many voters have turned off.
They are scathing of politicians and deeply cynical about their honesty and motives. Australia is by no means as far down this path as the United States, but Trump is a warning of what happens when people decide that conventional politics doesn't work.
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The Bradfield booth that swung it for the teals and how the Liberals’ lead slipped away
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@amonkeyinsilk The interview this morn by Sally Sara on RN Brekkie with the actual lead scientist of this report, rocked me. Hitherto i had believed that the awful WA Premier, & Elbow, had wilfully mislead the public over the report's conclusions, but this morn the bloke himself said, plainly, unambiguously, that the local air quality is good, the current damage is likely historical not contemporary, & they believe that the art & the industry can in fact safely coexist.
I felt devastated to hear this, not only coz til now i had believed that the pollies had lied, but also coz i trusted as truth what i was hearing & reading from the opponents.
Ofc, the project remains an abomination wrt its carbon bomb, nothing at all ameliorates nor forgives that crime... it's just that i had also believed that the art destruction was another reason to reject & condemn the project.
I am a staunch leftie greenie, but i still demand that "my" peeps tell the truth!
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@tonycart Ah
we don't have to worry about them for a few years
Pls tell this to, not only but including:
Gaaaaaaah [not at you... at them!] 🙄🤦♀️
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federal takeover). Stockdale may not have felt it necessary to back Speakman, but the NSW Liberal leader was keen to fire back.
“Of course we don’t need reverse quotas for men,” Speakman scoffed. “We have 45 per cent women on the NSW frontbench and 45 per cent of the Liberal Party room are women. I welcome the talented strong women who have joined our parliamentary ranks in recent years”.
Stockdale’s pitch to Liberal women on Tuesday night should be enough to send the clear message that he and Alston were not the right pick, let alone demographic, to turn around a troubled party which has been reduced to a rump of just six federal seats in NSW. Their term should not be extended, and the talented women of the Liberal Party should take the reins.
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@Cloudslave Yep also heard him this morn. My main beef is not his constant lies, coz that's just DNA speaking, but instead my fury is that ABC has carried on platforming these turds as if the election had not happened & we didn't all know that these fools are irrelevant. ALL the time Aunty is lavishing on the Liebs & Nuts now is misdirected, & should be on the Prog Indies & Greens. I am just spitting chips about this bias.
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#ABC #RadioNational #Brekkie this morn...
Highlight: Interview with Nicolette Boele ... she seems like she's a Good Peep afaict
Lowlight: Breathless reporting on & discussion about how Mr Nukes of the Liebs is in high dudgeon about the merest possibility that the Lab govt might have the temerity to deal with the Greens in the Senate to pass the Super tax changes, instead of respecting the fact that the Liebs & Nuts vehemently demur. I mean... the sheer gall & unreality of these loser sociopaths! 😮
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Teal candidate Nicolette Boele wins final Bradfield recount, court challenge looms
Woot!!!
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@erici 😮
Pleasing to see Senator Dorinda Cox join Labor!
Why? Please explain. 🤷♀️
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@Susan60 @tonycart I hope so too, but feel super glum about it, coz after all, Elbow & Co have demonstrated consistently in Oppo & now Govt that they only support the corporations. Ofc they'll scream with fake outrage about being slighted this way, but my rejoinder is so simple... look at what they do, not what they say. Thus, given they deliberately chose to not reform the climate laws wrt projects, afaict they are in the legal "right", notwithstanding scientific & ethical "wrong", to keep up the shit they're doing. To think they only have this stonking Reps majority on the back of Greens prefs, given their blatant anti-Greens ethos & actions, is galling beyond words. Our only hope afaict atm can't be legal, but legislative, via the Greens Senators. However, even there, i'm very fearful, coz i expect much skulduggery by Labs siding with Liebs there. Ugh.
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This is a weird headline...
We can stop Labor wrecking Murujuga, climate
...considering that afaict the actual article itself provides no reason for optimism at all. IMO, given we have state & federal Labor governments so completely in thrall to the fossil fools, & who have repeatedly proven they happily ignore science & First Nations, i see no reason to hope here.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/we-can-stop-labor-wrecking-murujuga-climate
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@Cloudslave Pretty sure that the answer to
reached peak neoliberal farce yet?
is likely a resounding NOPE, given we're only at the beginning of the new three year term of the #ShitLiteParty, who continue to indicate that they're up for all sorts of gross shitfuckery.
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