Abandon democracy
Alan b,
Where is there any to abandon ?

Good point individual. Winston Churchhill, probably got it right when he said, Democracy is the worst form of government, but better than all the rest. Yes, there's a lot wrong with our form of government or in the home of modern-day democracy, the USA, where they have the very best democracy money can buy. Whereas here it's by the party, for the party and of the party.

Consequently, we remain the sole "democracy" without an irrevocable bill of rights and are tethered to a preference system that removes your right to elect your preferred candidate and supplants another that is placed there with dirty deals done in the dead of night.

We should have either full proportional voting with primaries to decide who gets nominated so as to eliminate the power brokers, factions and dirty deals done in the dark, behind closed doors.

Time the coalition split into the more democratic liberal and the born to rule conservatives? And put an end to the laughing stock/shambles, our parliament has become.

After we the people decide who all the candidates will be, elect our choice with first past the post with more than 50% or to a runoff between the leading contenders.

For a fixed term that cannot be altered to suit various individuals or parties. Or with proportional representation minus any preferencing, that then may allow some nobody with just 19 votes to win an appointment, when the elected appointee loses their seat for whatever reason.

A bill of irrevocable rights would necessarily include a citizens' initiated referendum. Had we had this right we the people could have stopped a PM from selling the farm/heirloom silverware so he could porkbarrel to another electoral win, As well as creating an entitlement mindset?

Or simply force a royal commission into power pricing or generation methods?

That said, our form of democracy with all its faults, beats those examples in Turkey, Russia and Cambodia, just to mention the most glaring examples of electoral democracy along with freedom of the press! The latter something Putin's puppet in Washington? Clearly hates!?
Alan B.

The United Nations, and security council couldn’t stop the IRA who operated with impunity for decades.
They couldn’t stop the slaughter in Rwanda and the Serbs had shot thousands of Muslims before the United Nations finally
sent a so called peace keeping force in.

The city of Kuwait was raped and plundered for 3 months before a security force could be approved to go in to stop it.

The United Nations is pretty useless if you ask me. And today the United Nations is onesided in who it supports.
They might as well disband it.

It was always going to have Nations who back their own interests.
I never in my whole life thought it was a workable organisation.

Dear Rebecca.

Islam wrote the book on ethnic cleansing, genocide, and lethally enforced assimilation, and that book is called "The Koran." As an instruction manual for justifying religious war, foreign conquest, and the worst aspects of Imperialism, the Koran has much to recommend it. It might surprise you to know that Afghanistan was once primarily Buddhist, and an established civilisation before the Muslims smashed their way in, killed every Buddhist, and turned civilised Afghanistan back to the 6th Century.

They slaughtered their way across India killing hundreds of millions, and you wonder why the Hindus don't like them? They tried to do the same in Burma and Thailand, but fortunately, their Buddhist victims in were able to stay in the majority. If the Muslims had prevailed, you would now be whining about Muslim persecution of Burmese and Thai Buddhists. If it had not been for the modern day Muslim minorities usual troublemaking in those countries only recently, attacking police stations and murdering soldiers, the Burmese and the Thais would probably have left them alone.

But the Muslims just can't help themselves. They have fight for Allah to attain Allah's favour and his promise of paradise, and they can never accept that Islam should be subject to any other culture. Therefore they are a serious danger to any peaceful society they inhabit, including our own.

But in Burma at least, their victims are hitting back and informing the Muslims that they should return to the Caliphate and then they can live in Islamic ignorance and squalor forever. I really don't know what you are whining about? If there were a small minority of Nazis in Israel, and the Israelis victimised them and tried to ethnically cleanse them out of their country, wouldn't you find that understandable? Would you go into bat for the Nazis? If the answer is "no", them why are you crying over what Islam's usual victims are doing to their traditional oppressors?