We the people elect our governments to serve us, not enslave us as they are now doing. Our governments have sold our utilities (Electricity, Gas, water etcetera),public transport, toll roads ad many of our industries to foreign investors who continually increase prices and fees. Today as reported in the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper page 7 Families losing power, Working families are the new face of financial hardship as power, gas and water bills soar, the state utilities watchdog has warned.
Fortunately the people of Australia are waking up and saying they have had enough. Evidence of this is the result of the recent Federal and Victorian State elections. They are demonstrating that they are no longer sheeple prepared to accept the spin and retorich fed to them. We pay the governments wages in our taxes, they are our employees and we are their boss.

The array of self serving interests that make up the ALP ensure that providing good governance to the people of Australia is only one of many priorities. This combined with an inflated sense of righteousness of their cause that leads them to believe that the end justifies the means, results in the avoidance of the principles of procedure and good governance.

The liturgy of failed projects and petty corruption from the last few years will haunt Labor for decades.

REvisiting the question of 'what ails good governance' in Australia.

In short *sin*

Last Wednesday the writ of mandamus was served in the court in Canberra. By Sunday Swann was declaring sweeping changes to the banks, mortgages and intrest rates and fees. Coincidence??

The author of this article has problems with the ALP in two states in particular.

He would do well to consider "governance" as a system of governing which has an impact on all political parties, especially the major parties in Australia's situation. The limitations imposed by federal-state relations, as well as the two-party system that often cuts across federal government, are very severe in large metropolitan areas. The incredible fiscal imbalance (82% of all revenue goes to the federal Government) is another limitation and the need for states to somehow finance local government doesn't help either.

These problems will continue in spite of changes in party government in states. I see nothing of that awareness in this article. Very soon Coalition Governments in Victoria and NSW will also come up against these limitations. Moreover, as with the ALP, the quality of their politicians will leave as much to be desired, so the author might also have looked at why that quality is so limited rather than assuming that unexpectedly gifted Coalition politicians will now fix very intractable transport and other problems in the major cities. The real need is for developing alternatives to national governance problems, meaning system problems. The causes of Australia's problems lie mainly in dysfunctional systems,
political, electoral and the federal structure. Once we start thinking along those lines we'll soon realise that the Constitution simply has to be rewritten altogether. And why not??