Yes, I subscribe to the motivation behind this piece, but hold no hope of change in the right direction.

Australian Governments have by tradition, kowtowed to the dictates of the US, and that is what we are gifted with again. The curse of the Vassal State!

Dan.

HEALTH "Investing" in Health is an economic black hole.

INFLATION Of course inflation is up, Everard. The majority of Australians voted Labor, so they want economic dysfunction and it's inevitable inflation from a tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend government. Who did you vote for?

ENERGY – Hang on, Everard. Aren't you one of the climate Alarmists who want to replace our cheap energy coal fired power stations with expensive Green methods? You can't have it both ways, Everard.

AGED CARE –Then start thinking about how best to legalise Euthenasia and let terminally ill people die with dignity..

CLIMATE and ENVIRONMENT There ya go, Everard. You want cheap energy and you support the climate Alarmists. Can't have it both ways, old mate.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING – Stop importing people into this country who need our governments to provide them with housing, as well as everything else they need. Recognise that a declining population means lower house prices and rents.

ULURU STATEMENT – Stop pandering to the claims of self appointed "aboriginal leaders" , some of whom are not really aboriginal at all, to divide our nation by race. Recognise that they only trying to figure a way to get their sticky fingers on the incredible $60 billion pa that The Good Old Aussie Taxpayer forks out for aboriginal welfare.

INFRASTRUCTURE –Then stop importing more people which will make it worse.

WATER – We are not allowed to. Because the greenies you support over their Global warming religion oppose any sensible proposal that can approve things. When the Aral sea dried up because of Socialist incompetence, it changed the climate around it for thousands of square kilometers around. It all turned into a desert. The reverse can be true. Do what Burley Griffin proposed a hundred years ago and redirect the over abundant water from the north west of Australia into Lake Eyre.

CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE –The best Upper Houses of our governments that should be abolished are the upper houses of every state government, which are simply well salaried retirement homes for former politicians and their mates.

"I yearn for the dignified tradition of Menzies and Chifley who regularly debated one another in Parliament with huge courtesy and respect, as well as making excellent use of the English language as their sauce of power."

Well besides all the other near useless drivel you've written (you've mainly just complained about stuff without providing any detail how to fix things within our economic constraints), I'll focus on the above quoted sentence since most will ignore it.

Having people govern solely due to their advanced speaking skills and sophistry is the VERY LAST thing that you want to have. History is littered with people who were fluid and persuasive speakers but horrendous leaders who have caused devastating economic, military, social, etc. disasters.

Policy decisions should derive from rational/logical arguments based on factual observations. It shouldn't be a concern at all if someone uses primary school level or expletive ridden language, as long what they state as a truth is backed by observational fact and that the conclusions they reach follow rationally.

In other words its not the way that you express things that matter but the meaning and foreseeable consequences of what you say. In addition, what you claim you are going to do has little value, what counts is what you actually end up doing.

Albanese did not follow three conservative PMs. Only Abbott came close to being conservative, and he didn't believe in freedom of speech, chickening out on his promise on sec.18c.

Compton is right about one thing though: Albo won't take "any notice" of his "thoughts"; won't even know of them. What a loss to Australia!

The 10 points he raises are the same ones as always, and they will be handled and mishandled in the same way as they always have been.

He hopes that "Question Time will become a place of respectful debate". Sheesh!

Australia is rooted, no matter what mob of no hopers is in power, or what naifs like Compton "yearn" for.

Thinkabit. Hear, hear and well said Sir.

Everald is like Labor long on wind and exercising the tongue muscles. But short on the stuff between the ears? Fails to understand like all the waste of space, labor, that everything comes back to energy and its current cost.

Simply put, every dollar spent on keeping the lights on is a dollar less spent on the essentials of life, health, aged care and so on!

Are so thick (as a brick) that they cannot divorce themselves from that albatross, massively expensive coal-fired power! And constantly repeat the risible rubbish that renewables are the cheapest and will confer the status of an energy super power on Oz!

Hydrogen? Yes. But at 6 dollars a liquid litre? And at three quarters of the range of petrol?

NO! Except, where transport companies make their own from solar panels? And not too many visionary takers in that space, given the upfront outlays!

Thorium? No, not sore at im. Why should I be? Says it all?

And we're stuck with this tin-eared moribund garbage for the next three years.

Thorium is everywhere, even on the moon!
Alan B.

Oh dear, what is the hope for the country when even the Elites such as Everauld don't understand what is going on.
I'll bet he thinks the 2008 GFC crash was caused by the financial system.
He seems to think we are facing a repeat of that.

What we are facing is a repeat of the Peaking of crude oil in 2005,
except it is not oil but energy generally and mostly a failure of
wind (literally) and solar to do the job without bankrupting the country.
Without sufficient energy, everything will fail.
The dream of Zero Net Co2 by 2050 has become a nightmare.
Unfortunately the new government is hell bent on renewables and has
blinkers fitted tightly. The only hope is a revolution of the unions
threatening to cut funding to the ALP if it blocks new power stations.

It can be argued that in Europe it is dead already.
It looks like it will starve to death literally.
Some foolish elites are blaming the Ukraine war, it is just a sideline.