I think the next election is won, by Labor, it is the choice for those who have suffered over the last 5 years,Shorten is, or was much better than he has looked in those years,we do not need to love our PM but we do need very good teams, Labor in my view has that, the liberals may well have too, but factions are keeping true liberals down

Individual said- "The best way now would be an ALP/LNP Coalition with One Nation breathing down their red necks."

Answer- The "red necks" comment was interesting- perhaps some will miss the implication. And I support the general idea of One Nation curbing ALP/ LNP plans. The only way to stop immigration is by using an "anti-immigration coalition" in the senate to block legislation and if necessary supply to force the "majority pro-immigraton stance of both ALP and LNP". Once this is achieved it will be possible to slowly over a number of years prune both the ALP and LNP from Australian politics for their possible treason against the Australian people.

The suggestions so far as to how to improve our choices
of parties has been interesting to say the least.

So I'll jump in as well.

What if - we got rid of the Party system and elected
individuals for specific positions in government best
qualified and experienced for the job?

At the moment
people are picked (selected) from the Party ranks -
who are favoured for the top jobs and are not necessarily
qualified to do them. How can we get rid of this happening?
Jobs for loyalties - need to be gotten rid of.

At least in the US the Governor of the state is elected by
the people. The leader of the country is elected by the people.
Who in turn invites (in their opinion) the best and the
brightest to work with them. These people are not necessarily
selected from the party faithful.

Is this too radical an idea?

For example - former President Obama (a Democrat) had Republican
advisers working with him.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating that we become like
the US. All I'm trying to suggest is that there could be better
people in the Cabinet then there currently are - and there must be
a way to do this. Our current system could be improved - surely.

Foxy- I'm impressed by your ingenuity- Kudos. Could be a little complex given the three levels of government- could be up to thirty complex decisions for voters. In computer programming low level simple functionality is bubbled up through various levels to higher level complex functionality- a hierarchical system- Confucius talked about a similar system based on the family. If the level below votes for the one above each level of the system only needs to be concerned about the level above- the member at a particular level can make decisions based on the electorate views on topics. Perhaps a higher level of transparency can be implemented here. Any changes to our political system need to be approached extremely carefully using multiple feedback mechanisms over a long period of time- 30- 40 years, with a lot of scope for reversion. Maybe it could be implemented in companies first - or in some other public context as a test case. Your idea synchronises with an interview with one of the bank CEO's that didn't have expertise in banking.

Foxy,
You can count me in on that system, if they don't perform off they go, no massive Govt pay-outs.

Canem Malum,

Thank you for seeing the possibilities that could
work. I'm no pundit. It would take, as you suggested
much expertise to work out the details. And possibly
someone else could come up with even better and
workable ideas. But its only an idea - and something
to think about.

Individual,

Thank You for your enthusiasm.

Clearly we're not happy with things as they are.