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Originally Posted by Polyal
Spot on, the system is rigged and its every one else fault except theirs. oh yeah and the old cliché "the big end of town"...nice.
We need to move on from liberal = business minded and does care about people and Labour = basically a union movement...both extremes are not true.
I am not stupid enough to suggest international affairs do not effect us, of course they do, but the level of interest and detail some get into regarding American politics is perplexing when they probably haven't even stepped foot in the country. Their "knowledge" of their systems and beliefs is in some cases (perceived) to be greater than our own at times!
Also thankful for what we have, no system is perfect and you need a country to have a couple of healthy parties. But the antics internally of recent years makes it hard to be enthusiastic about domestic politics. Imagine if we have someone with a bit of charisma and brains..what a combo. Unfortunately it seems the system makes a goof out of otherwise intelligent people.
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without Googling I bet most Australians can't name our first PM and if they can, they generally get the name wrong, however they know who America's first President was - interesting eh?
What makes them goofy is that are forced to follow Party lines, if we followed the true intent of our Constitution then there would be no Parties, that would make a whole lot of difference for sure, people would debate and vote on either what their heart says or what their constituents want
Interesting that many, including you call the ALP a "union movement" well I would say the Liberal Party is a "
bosses movement" controlled by lobbyists for big business, the Gina's, Twiggy's, AIG, Coal, etc
(PS please get the spelling of the Australian Labor Party correct -
www.alp.org.au)