JHG,

I think the procedure here is for you to give Graham Young permission to pass your contact details onto me.

We can go from there.

Cheers.

It wasn't just the 'major parties' that the $1 a vote would have favoured, because the Greens would have done very well.

I cannot see how it is anything but a plus for democracy that the LNP said no because public opinion went against the idea.

What I do criticise is the secrecy negotiating the deal. It is no good for democracy that legislation, particularly legislation that affects elections, is framed behind closed doors. Transparency and proper consultation with the public please.

Dear onthebeach,

I couldn't agree with you more about transparency.
Tell that to Mr Abbott and his "slush-fund."
"Australians for Honest Politics," indeed.
Litigation pending.

Dear Poirot,

Thanks for that.

There's even more on the web.
What's worse than being a liar - is a liar who's
also a hypocrite. But then look at who Abbott's
mentors were/are. Apart from JH -
Cardinal Pell springs to mind.

onthebeach - What I do criticise is the secrecy negotiating the deal. It is no good for democracy that legislation, particularly legislation that affects elections, is framed behind closed doors. Transparency and proper consultation with the public please.

Note that the grub agreed to the deal with the red-headed witch without mentioning he'd done so to his LNP compatriots. If they had any sense they would turf him out immediately, the fact they haven't suggesting there is nobody else interested or capable of taking on the RAbbotts job.

praxidice,

I agree with you. Time the politicians remembered that they govern at our pleasure and they serve to us, not the other way around.

The 'greed is good' self-serving attitude of Labor ministers, the LNP and the Greens is disgraceful.

onthebeach

I'm right over these parasites, seems everything the scum do costs us heaps, more often than not to fix things resulting from the utter ineptitude of the preceding galahs. They constantly lie, cheat, distort, mislead and fabricate with impunity, they thumb their nose at us by awarding themselves the 'honorable' title, and even when we finally get the opportunity to turf the clowns out, they expect us to keep them like royalty for the term of their natural !! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR What may I ask are the oxygen bandit governors doing to earn their scandalously obscene salaries, apart that is from swanning around squandering money faster than a whole Navy of drunken sailors ??