Couple more changes come to mind.

Get rid of compulsory voting.

Raise the eligible voting age to 25 years. When most young people start to consider matters more seriously. The schoolies activities is a good example of the young not thinking rationally.

Scribbler, I reckon we should have about thirty states, based roughly on a population size about the same as Tasmania, with larger population states for the greater Sydney and Melbourne areas and other capital cities.

But there’s no particular reason why I desire this. It just seems like a nice concept ( :>)

More importantly, we should absolutely get rid of compulsory preferential voting and implement option preferential voting in all elections, federal, state and local.

We should absolutely ban political donations and do whatever else we can to make government as independent as possible from the sway of big business, the profit motive and hence the push for us to keep on rapidly growing our population.

And the most important thing of all is to strive for a sustainable Australia!!

I think that if our government were to make a concerted move in this direction, a huge amount of the disillusionment in the general community would dissipate.

A couple of the things that really grate with ordinary Australians are: very high immigration and a long-term mining boom and high economic growth but with very little to show for it at the personal level.

The ordinary bloke in the street hates the idea of the rich getting richer, facilitated by unscrupulous pollies, doesn’t want a big Australia and strongly desires our amazing mineral wealth and other economic wherewithal to actually mean something a whole more tangible for them and their family.

There appears to be a certain level of desire within Labor ranks for a move towards a low-immigration, much-higher-per-capita-economic-growth regime. But big business wields enormous power over them. If they can just escape the stranglehold of big donations which buy big favours, then we could start to head away from the absurdity of never-ending rapid expansionism and towards a sustainable future.

So perhaps the key to it all is to ban political donations and strive to make our governments, at all levels, much less tied to big business and more accountable to the ordinary people.

The ordinary bloke in the street hates the idea of the rich getting richer,
Ludwig,
Yes, but it is the ordinary bloke who buys all sorts of crap from those rich. Just look at how much some of these mutts fork out to see a band or some football game. It's mind blowing.
Stop supporting the rich & you'll have more in your own pocket.

Raise the eligible voting age to 25 years after you raise the age of miltary service to 25 as well.

If you're expected to die for your country you should be entitled to have a say in how it's run.

There is a lot of irrational thinking on this site too, regardless of age.

That's the problem with democracy. It only takes 2 idiots to outvote a genius.

So now we know. That's how Labor got elected.

If you're expected to die for your country you should be entitled to have a say in how it's run.
wobbles,
So far as I'm aware no-one's forced to join the armed forces these days. It's great career path with serious risks. So, no one is expected to die for Australia. More truck drivers die for your goodies to be on the Suoermarket shelves every day. What about them ? do they get any State funeral because they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ? Are they being put on pedestals as heroes ?
let's have a bit of perspective here eh ?