Dear Belly,

Not with you on this one at all mate. Without the Senate Abbott would have brought in his draconian class warfare rubbish.

Stripping away bulk billing for instance with 'just a small co-payment'.

I think the reason a whole bunch of Australians decide to vote for someone else in the Senate compared to who they vote for in the House of Reps is that they want it to keep the bastards honest.

I love the fact that someone like Lambie got in. Don't like all her politics but she is someone who calls things out for what they are rather than voting along party lines. If the place had another 10 of her and another 10 of Andrew Wilkie in the lower house we would be far better off in my opinion.

I take offense Belly,
"In fact in my view this country would be far better off if both majors combined whenever possible, to marginalise them"

You want to marginalise them?
That means you wish to marginalise me.
That you wish to deny me MY democracy because YOUR democracy isn't working for you.

That you wish to remove those things because you party's shite and didn't win?
Why don't you and your stupid backwards regressive party come up with some policies that majority of citizens will support instead of pedaling this fantasy crap about moving the centre to the lefts point of view and other airy-fairy shite...

The reason the governments won't change their policies is because its a global agenda to force the people to change;
- Instead of the people forcing the politicians and their policies to change -

You can shove your globalist stitch-up thank you very much.

Steel/Armchair, with honest respect for you both, honestly
I see both points,but too remind SR Howard was the last to hold both houses
He misused it, workchoices took the stick to his own *blue collar workers*
He lost the next election and his seat
Arm chair, ok see your point but what of the view of something over 80 percent who did not vote for the minories
Let us be honest,Labor got more primaries than LNP But, lost the election
Should they, assisted by the few, block the very policy that got the LNP elected
WHY?
I would NEVER have accepted the LNP blocking an ALP governments bills and that remains the issue, should the featherless chickens overrule the voters

Belly would do well in China where there is just the Communist party that can do as it pleases; because that's what he wants here. The two parties should unite to "marginalise" smaller parties and independents? People like Belly don't deserve to live in a democracy.

Belly,

What has the ARA got to do with One Nation?

We need the Senate to counter the removal of common sense by Labor !