Fixed terms. More politicians. No thanks. We need imore elections and fewer politicians to keep honest.

This is a rather confused piece. Neither the UK Parliament nor the French National Assembly has fixed terms, so the outcome of the elections cannot be blamed on fixed-term systems. Nor does either recent election present a strong case for government discretion on the timing of elections. In the case of France, it may well have been better if Macron had not called an early election that has led to polarisation of the community and Assembly, and possibly unworkable government in a country not used to compiling broad working Coalitions. The Conservative government in the UK was a slow-moving train wreck that had been irreversibly doomed by its own arrogance, stupidity and incompetence. It was always going to lose the election, whenever it was held. In both cases, the best that can be said about calling early elections is that, from the perspective of Macron and Sunak, it forestalled outcomes that would have been even worse if the elections were held later.

Scott says “In Australia, the last referendum to move the Commonwealth Parliament to four-year, fixed-terms was initiated by the Hawke Labor government in 1988.” This is incorrect. The 1988 referendum sought to increase the maximum terms of government in the House of Representatives from three to four years, but did not propose that the term be fixed.

Australia is indeed “out of sync with other major democratic countries”, not so much in not having fixed terms, but in having such short ones. Three-year Parliaments are very rare, with maximum terms of four or five years much more common (and 4-year terms in every Australian State).

Personally I’d slightly favour an extension to maximum 4-year terms but not fixed terms – there are events and circumstances in which early elections are warranted or necessary. But it's not a major issue. Anyway, after the disastrous Voice referendum, the chances of a referendum being held in Australia on this matter (or any other) in the foreseeable future are zero.

Zelensky Curse.
Both Macron and Sunak were holding positions in line with U.S. vassal state foreign policy.
These positions are not necessarily in their citizens best interests but in the interests of elites.
I think Sunak's election call may have been deliberately self-inflicted in that he actually wanted out.

It' a democracy downward spiral.

The sun is setting in the western empire and rising in the east.
The pendulum is swinging back to places there were former empires.
We already see the West sacrificing it's vassal states and peasants to fight wars for the empire and elites.
The capitalists risk losing their power to the east, so will send whoever they can to die to stop it.