You are right. We should have both fixed terms, dates of elections known in advance and maximum 2 terms just like the septics.

In this country we generally do not elect the person who will run government. It has become standard for potential leadership candidates to be given the job by the previous occupant.

Why do we allow that? Would the septics allow George Bush to give his job to Jeb Bush? NO So why do we tolerate it here?

If we have a change of leader then the whole government must go and a general election held. That way governments would never change leaders outside the election cycle.

Why? Simple. Wasting money and forcing people to elections ensures they would lose.

The best way to fix our government's and electoral process would be a combination of abolishing political Parties, removing any funding except personally paid for and personally delivered.

What the hell does that second bit mean, about personal paying for ads etc?

What it does is ensure that candidates focus on their own electorate only. Unless they are multi millionaires of course. But if this system was adopted then the public would know exactly who and when advertising outside the electorate occurs.

The future is to change MP's loyalty from Party to People, to their electorates and how they can actually represent them rather than just occupying the seat.

The great disadvantage of having fixed terms, as the Americans discovered with Richard Nixon, is that it is too hard to get rid of them before time.

Under our system, the Prime Minister holds his office during the pleasure of the Governor-General, and can be removed at any time. The Japanese were admiring this system a few years ago, when their Prime Minister fell into a coma, and they couldn't wake him up to resign.

Any such changes would have to go to the people in referendum, and that would have the usual result.

What very few people seem to realise is that Howard has won the election in a masterstroke. We'll all have to vote for him now, as that is the only way we can discover whether the undertaking to retire before the next election was a core promise or not.

LAUGH + RELAX Nicole Cornes. To know you is to know the very best things we learn are from someone elses gaffes. Nicole we need your leadership, we need you to never look back. Your confidence to "have a GO" will impact on all those who watch and choose to learn with you (no matter the party politics). A blimp-twist and NAIF can be most important sometimes as it can help to clarify the opposite said... life is all a comedy and its edged moments are the most interesting.

Review Howards recent catch in the rain outside parliament, the upside down messages misleded with TAMPER

The way BUSH tripped up in the Sydney APEC (Aust troops) gaffes and just to press the point "“There's really nothing more to say about it," she says."

http://www.worldnewsaustralia.com.au/region.php?id=140200&region=4

Yes it is all about language... about learning (TOGETHER AUSTRALIA) and about doing our best regardless of the sniggering...

A Leader to be voted is a linkage in the greater picture and one who serves the people. I encourage anyone who tries.

Nicole Cornes you are part of an important moment, it is Australia that has to prove it's worth.

Our Nation is changing now no matter who our voters choose.

That is the choice.

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