Quote:All you are really saying is huge government good, personal freedoms bad. Your government like ours is very generous with other people's money. The rich and powerful select who you get to vote for, if you don't do it at the local level it hardly matters who you vote for nationally!
Not anymore, Mort. Clive Palmer spend a hundred mil and got one seat in the senate.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/22/clive-palmers-massive-adv...Monique Ryan, independent, spent bugger all. She deposed the treasurer and took the most blue ribbon (conservative) seat in the country.
She was joined by six other independents who did exactly the same thing. Allegra Spender took former PM Malcolm Turnbull's seat. Zali Steggall kept former PM Tony Abbott's seat. And on and on around the country, independents took on the well-funded, deeply-entrenched Establishment players, fuelled on the smell of an oily rag.
They took on the leftards too. Dai Le took on former NSW premier and Labor star, Kristina Keneally. No help from the fake news either - Rupert hates anyone he can't control. The independents won in
spite of the News Ltd campaign against them.
No, Mort, the independents showed that we the people CAN use democracy to further our own interests, despite what the rich and powerful pay for. Those independents have shaken up the two-party system and are now helping us shape a new way of doing business in Australia. We don't need bloated old billionaires to do it for us, either.
You?