Rare agreement indeed hasbeen!
With just one exception, we are the most over governed people on planet earth, and consequently, dying under the weight of consequent desynchronising or doubled duplication in triplicate, red tape; and or, state govts, who arguably look after themselves and their cronies, far better than those they are elected to SERVE!?
Our numerous and hugely overpopulated state parliaments cost somewhere north of 70 billion per!
If one includes the Fed, the price we pay just for "road block" oppositions, is somewhere north of 40 billions per?
And money that could be far better spent else on unmet need or deferred infrastructure, like say a seriously overdue, nation building rapid rail system!?
Rhrosty.

Bruce Haigh, good approach and article.
Yes, Australia should have a royal commission into governance of the nation.
From personal ongoing experience there is clear evidence the present system, although of good repute, is broken down.
My local MP and the nearby national opposition leader are not available to discuss evidence of serious and general seafood devastation and solutions linked to collapse of world food sustainability.
Major media is gagging ocean damage incidents that form evidence of the real state of ocean food web ecosystems. There has been seven dead whales on Frazer Island alone in the past 2 years.
A baby humpback whale carcass head washed up at Whale Beach Sydney 25 Nov 2012, where children were swimming in the tidal pool near the seeping ooze where surf washes up and fills the tidal pool, was not even reported. (photo at Facebook - John C Fairfax) (modern day whale watching) TIC.
Australia is a food producing nation yet major farm industry is being sold to foreign 'investors' while Australia now imports over 70 percent of fish consumed. Tough for starving whales, penguins etc.
Over 90 percent of north Queensland export beef abattoirs are already foreign controlled.
How can such tax base industry just be sold when that industry was developed with Australian taxpayer resources? What will replace tax revenue for Australian infrastructure? International profit shifting (IPS)is known to occur?
There is need for viable whole of water ecosystem and food sustainability, proper management.
Marine parks do nothing to stop or reduce sewage nutrient pollution feeding algae smothering seagrass food web and warming ocean currents.
Consequence is African-type ocean food ecosystem devastation occurring that present government and media regime is not duly addressing.
What a waste. A Royal Commission might find crime against humanity and the environment.
Food and Pacific unrest - national security is at stake.
Give peace and prosperity a chance.

A royal commission for gods sake. Has one of these ever done anything good.

You get a bunch of clapped out old judges, who, if they ever had any idea of the Oz community, forgot it long ago. An arrogant elite, with about as much empathy with the aspirations of Oz people, as I have with the ants in my back yard.

You stick them in a room, with a bunch of fawning assistants, & run a bunch of equally elitist academics past them, spouting some rarefied theoretical ideas of how things should be done. What on earth would you expect to get out of such a pantomime, that we don't currently get for free from my mates bulls ?

We had a commissioner who looked like he was going to be a bit tough on the Patel/Bundaberg hospital enquiry. They must have got frightened of what he might reveal, & got him out of there damn quick.

Sounds like our likes free pantomime.

Diver Dan. Yes we did once have a shameful white Australia policy!
A policy that simply allowed us to ignore the disgraceful plight of Australia's first citizens; and or, original custodians!
By hey, if the current kaleidoscope is a problem mate, then why don't we have a white Australia day?
On that day we coloured/deeply tanned folk, could go around and paint all our cousins, with high quality white wash, and insert beautiful ice blue contact lenses, and peroxide the hair?
Would that make them more acceptable mate?
Or would you then have to simply acknowledge, that we are all white under the skin, we all bleed red blood, piss straw coloured urine, and experience joy and happiness; and or, react to adversary or a patent injustice equally?
And just to be even handed, we could have a black Australia day, and paint all those superior white folks, with several coats of store bought suntan, along with inserted brown contact lenses, and deep black dye for the hair?
And then turn them loose, on say, the real estate market and have them try to rent an "up market" house, or belly up to the nearest, attitudinal "Toorak type" bar?
All while jabbering, ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong piddle li po, to each other?
To which an Asian realtor/publican might say, I didn't know Youse folks could speak Chinese?
To which they might reply, Holy horse feathers, neither did we, until now.
You all have a nice day now, y'hear.
Rhrosty.

<< A royal commission for gods sake. Has one of these ever done anything good. >>

D’Oh Hazza, you see everything in that worst possible light.

I’m sure you will agree that we need fundamental governmental reforms, and that this is of the utmost importance. So wouldn’t it be a good idea to get the highest research and recommendatory mechanism in the land to come up with the best way forward?

Wouldn’t a Royal Commission be just the tool?

I mean, we could ask the Australia Institute or the CSIRO or some other reputable body to do it, but I’m sure you’d be as condemning of them.

So then, what DO you suggest??

No Luddy I most definitely will not agree.

As with our constitution, any change suggested by the pollies, the Public servants, academics, or the judiciary would either have heaps of detrimental unintended consequences, or intentional consequences, obscured by male cow poo so the public don't see it until too late.

The only other people to benefit from any changer would be the lawyers. The hundreds of legal challenges would earn them heaps.

The system can't be too bad. It got rid of the first school teachers/academics party, the Democrats, & is slowly removing the second teachers/academics party the greens.

Any system that provides that level of self cleaning can't be all bad.