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The weakness of the current system is that the majority of voters are alienated from the political system – both parties operate as closed clubs. Join either party and you will spend most of your time kicking your heels in the lobby whilst real decisions are taken place behind closed doors. Little wonder that voters are disillusioned.
The reason a shift to a USA style primary system will be a game breaker is not because that is a perfect system. That system too has become as corrupted as vested interests manipulate the process but it takes time for these vested interests to work out the best way to control the process. The advantage is that in the short term at least it will revitalise the political process in as much it will require prospective candidates to demonstrate that they are critically engaged with the issues that matter to the electorate.
Will the Labor Party have the courage to open up its pre-selection process? If it does then the odds are that it may well manage to defeat the Coalition in 2013 for their selected candidates will have already established their credibility with the electorate as a whole and not just with the party faithful. It could also spell the end of the Greens and the minor parties for their supporters would be tempted to use the preselection process as a Trojan Horse to put forward their candidates.