One day it might occur to us that the "system" we presently operate is guaranteed to deliver us politicians whose entire focus is on perpetuating their presence at the trough of public money, and not on performance of the tasks that they "promised" to undertake while soliciting our vote.

There is absolutely no mechanism by which we can hold them to these "promises". And saying "well, we can always vote them out" is no argument, since one lot of hangers-on will simply be replaced by the next lot. We are not even allowed to withhold our vote in protest, for fear of being labelled un-Australian.

Until there is, we shall have to live with the never-ending conga-line of freeloaders who are quite happy to conduct themselves with all authority, and absolutely zero responsibility.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-waited-three-weeks-to-investigate-sex-claims-against-mp-20110922-1kndw.html
What would be best?
That this story is untrue, that someone has hatched on to the new reality of Australian politics?
Mud sticks?
Or that the rot that once was the private property, for a time, of the ALP in my state, has spread?
We must review the new lows our politicians and politics are exploring.

An inquiring mind often travels in the strangest places.
This country lad long ago wondered about just about every thing, someone please explain why I did not do so at school.
Homosexuality was alien to me, it may have existed around me but was unknown.
I read a lot, in time while avoiding the company in social settings of them I lived and let live.
The above story I found today in our National newspaper is one about homosexual act in public.
In what my reading has told me a very low [at night at least ] public homosexual beat,the lowest kind.
We, myself included felt confronted by a minister using what is not unlike a brothel.
Can we be any less upset with this?
Two story's come to haunt my opponents this morning this and publicly aired inferences about a front bench conservative.
Is Australian Politics a cess pool?
Some who serve are unattractive idiots how did we, both sides, let them get on the ladder? are we going to one day ask before launching such on our supporters?

Just one thought.
A post like the one above , posted about a Minister in a Labor government in NSW bought a shower of posts.
I note, increasing slips including some dreadful stuff just this day, is ignored.
I say good to Labor, left, posters for not swimming in that muddy pool conservatives so often party in.
And wounder how do Conservative spell HYPOCRISY, or is it a word they avoid.

Belly,

You ask me why I don't criticise my own party. The answer is that I can rely on you and others to grub out the most insubstantial mud on any liberal.

What we have is unsubstantiated innuendo without even a name. But after the gross criminality of Williams and Thomson, and Juliar's attempts at cover up, you must be really desperate.

Dear Belly,

Ignore the man.

There are people within the Liberal Party like Malcolm
Turnbull, that you may disagree with but you'll listen
to what they have to say because they do make sense.
But there are others like Mr Abbott that you know the
minute they open their mouths nothing of much intelligence
will come out.

It is best to ignore them. I always simply switch channels.

As for Shadow Minister. Belly he obviously doesn't have
anything sensible to say, keeps blaming others for criticising
his party and mud-slinging. Take a look at his previous
post where he accuses you (and others) of "mud slinging,"
and yet in the next paragraph does the same himself.

It is also true that there are some people in the Labor and
the Green Parties that don't warrant our attention. No
political party is perfect.