The reason why it's not being bought is that most of the people can see that it's a dud.
People don't like being conned.
The government needs to make the moral case
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-21/montaigne-budget/5687500
To those in the advertising business, political parties are ‘brands’, like Coke or Pepsi. Whom you choose to vote for is akin to deciding which brand of toothpaste you’ll purchase. Dee Madigan has been in the ad game for 18 years and has worked on 5 ALP election campaigns. She reveals the tricks of the trade. How are political ad’s made? Do they really makes us to change our vote? Why are negative ad’s so effective? Are ‘spin doctors’ & focus groups poisoning the political process, or essential to it? Dee Madigan is in conversation with Paul Barclay
What they promised pre-election, and what they have delivered(or trying to deliver) post-election are very different things - a con - a classic bait and switch.
Two different concepts.
So if ALP win lower house and not the senate at next election they will have no mandate
Usless they are just saying no as a ploitical tool. ALP is saying NO to items it put forward at the last election so it is political expediance and screw Australia
I must say I support his ideas on reform of the system (and would go much further) but starting with the abolition of Question Time.
While there is no formal ‘job description’ that sets out what a backbench Member does
Most Members can thus be viewed as having three roles—that of parliamentarian, constituency representative, and party member.
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Members must leave their electorates to attend Parliament. When Parliament is not meeting, parliamentary committees on which they serve may be conducting inquiries in different parts of the country.
Members require a broad range of skills to enable them to make an effective contribution across the breadth of their work responsibilities. Individual Members have different sets of skills, developed through education and their work
With only two parties plus a balance faction, politicians in NO WAY represent their electorate once their party is in charge.
For starters, when you count the votes they may not even hold 50% of the primary ballot. Therefore they're not even representing a majority. This is why preferential voting is broken.
Once they get to the big house, they toe the party line, which means they vote however the leaders tell them to. Party members with a conscience will be given short shrift and told their services are no longer required. This is why party politics is broken.
Democracy can't work in the face of any form of factionism, because it dilutes the representation of the individual. The elected member doesn't even need to be a citizen of that electorate to stand for it, except in the loosest terms.
So, in order:
1) We don't know what you're supposed to do
2) There are junkets - junkets are good
3) Don't worry about the bit in bold, just do what we say. You probably haven't held a real job if you're with a big party anyway.
I find #3 particularly amusing.
I would start with the abolition of Parliament.
With only two parties plus a balance faction, politicians in NO WAY represent their electorate once their party is in charge.
For starters, when you count the votes they may not even hold 50% of the primary ballot. Therefore they're not even representing a majority. This is why preferential voting is broken.
Once they get to the big house, they toe the party line, which means they vote however the leaders tell them to. Party members with a conscience will be given short shrift and told their services are no longer required. This is why party politics is broken.
Democracy can't work in the face of any form of factionism, because it dilutes the representation of the individual. The elected member doesn't even need to be a citizen of that electorate to stand for it, except in the loosest terms.
Go and browse through this:
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliam...sheet_15_-_The_work_of_a_Member_of_Parliament
Here are the choice bits from the top part:
So, in order:
1) We don't know what you're supposed to do
2) There are junkets - junkets are good
3) Don't worry about the bit in bold, just do what we say. You probably haven't held a real job if you're with a big party anyway.
I find #3 particularly amusing.