"I can see that Steele Redux isn't a fan of the principles of democracy."

No you can't unless you mean that toxic brand of democracy which leads to police chiefs, prosecutors and judges being elected rather than appointed. No, I don't want a bar of that.

Nor do I want my elected representatives spending 2/3rds of their time dedicated to fundraising for the next election as in the US.

You lot have your democracy tied into hyper capitalism where worker's voices through unions is utterly stifled and big business rules supreme.

The great pity is ours is following suit to a degree but still not to the truly disgusting levels so prevalent in your country.

Leave our democracy to us and go look after your own, it certainly needs it.

The principles of the Peoples Liberation Army seem ironic given what we know. You would expect those of the Trotsky Socialists would be similar- probably much worse- without The British Westminster System.

We're a federation - independently governed states
working together under federal government structure.
And the structure of the Australian Senate draws heavily
on the US model of the Senate.