.....and when voting time comes around everyone forgets these daily issues and focus on those presented to them by the media. Such is the marshmellow mind of the Australia voter...like a permanently open steel trap.
You want to toss a spanner into the system?....vote for the independents, and I don't mean the parasite Greens,.... 'cos the independants know that their political future will be based on performance, and not party pre-selection and privileges for the boys...girls.... whatever.
Then if you really want to break the mold, vote for homosexual candidates 'cos whether you like it or not homosexual individuals, on average, tend to have higher ideals and sharper minds that the grubs in there at the moment.......and no I'm not homosexual although I can think of far worse things to be.....like a mediocre citizen of the Commonwealth

Some facts might be of value' here:

Based on ACCC research the petrol price is made up of:

Cost to actually purchase the fuel from refineries: 51% of final price
Government taxes eg fuel excise,GST: 38% of final price
Profit margins and costs to deliver fuel to outlets: 12%

According to the ACCC the petrol companies made 2.2 cents per litre sold. That is pretty much in line with similar countries.

Ask yourself if you're in favour of Australia reducing CO2 emissions. If yes then you should be asking for the price of petrol to be increased.

But I find that people will tend to be completely in favour of reducing emissions as long as someone else pays for it.

its called supply/demand. When enough people can't afford petrol it will drop in value. In WA they have fuel watch and grocery watch. A total waste of taxpayer money but it makes some people feel good. If you were in business or selling something you will accept as much as a person is prepared to pay. Government knows it is powerless to determine fuel price unless of course we become like North Korea. The warmist were predicting a decade ago that we would be out of oil and what was left would be 10 dollars plus per litre. Oh well life goes on and pseudo scienctist still get their grants.

Guys, one thing I have learned in all my years and that is; Where money is involved people will lie. Unlike a lot of other countries Aussies are too well off. Mainly because of mining and unions. The pollies see all this money going towards frivolous and wasteful lifestyles so they reason; These people have to much money so let's take some more off them. The people are too lazy and complacent to give crap so instead of getting together and physically attacking the thieves who are making life hard for them, they turn to the unions to extract more money from the businesses. And of course the govt won't interfere because after all, it means more money they can extract off you again. This is the cycle and it is repeated over and over but the people are all too lazy, stupid and greedy to do anything about it. Don't believe a word they say. For every dollar they take off us, lucky if 20c actually goes to its intended destination. I too would suggest the independents because I want to see the 'club' get a good 'clubbing'. To death if I had my way. I can dream. No I do not suggest voting for the queers, we are already having to see the very things I warned people would happen before they got their way. So just the straight independents is the only way to go.