The social innovation movement in Australia must develop new types of leaders, community organisations and political parties who are prepared to change dysfunctional media, political, educational, parliamentary and other systems.

The current political environment and culture in Australia does not support such innovation or attract the best and brightest to serve our nation. Replacing systems that perpetuate poor social, economic and environmental outcomes for Australia must become a national priority and a benchmark against which we measure the performance of our elected representatives and governments. Blaming the media for the dumbing down of our democracy is not the answer to all our problems. Every citizen should demand and contribute to better outcomes and better systems.

Every citizen should demand and contribute to better outcomes and better systems.
Mac a,
A 2 year non-military National Service would be a huge leap towards achieving that.

I thought Tanner was reasonably sensible unti you read this

'Tanner does acknowledge the redeeming positive role of social media and organisations like GetUp. He also praises Blogs like The Conversation and the ABC for providing greater quality political programs than commercial stations do. '

It is these tax payer funded organisations that has promoted the warming scandal. Only the most naive have fallen for it. Thankfully although it took a little while Bolt and Jones saw through the deceitful tax payer consensus science. Hopefully the funding for the ABC propaganda machine will be cut to prevent further lies being promoted and the truth hidden.

runner,
I remember Tanner from his many TV interviews & admittedly, nowadays does on the surface appear somewhat more sensible then when he was a minister but still not sensible enough. Why even Maxine McKew is smart enough to remain quiet.

Yes Individual, I'm sure Maxime is an older & much wiser lady, after a term in Canberra, than the idealistic little girl, who ran off from the safe ABC, to join the circus.

I wonder if she thought she could make a difference, or was just too naive to see through those she was interviewing?

wonder if she thought she could make a difference
Hasbeen,
I never got the feeling that that thought ever entered her mind, she's way too academic for that mentality. She was typical of those with huge education but minute sense of responsibility. Standard material really.