Neil Brown, federal politician from the old days when politicians weren't cardboard cutouts, has a few things to say about government waste and expensive minor politicians with minority, unnecessary and expensive agendas.

Conservative though he is, (or because he is) he expresses his pleasure that, after "years of Liberal party waste and profligacy in government spending", the ALP government might "genuinely cut waste and extravagance" and it is absolutely right to cut the number of so-called advisers for independent and crossbench MPs and senators from four to one.

Note 'so-called advisers', whom Brown has a few things to say about from his own experience.

But first, Brown wonders, as many of us do, why:

. They presently have four electorate officers to help write a few letters to ministers on immigration and pension issues for constituents.
. Plus four policy advisers each.
. Turnbull, Morrison and Frydenberg are responsible for this "powerhouse" for empire building, apparently.

Brown goes on to say that any idea that these "bottom-feeders" (advisers and hangers on) are qualified by knowledge or experience to advise, is "ludicrous":

. The average type doesn't have the slightest experience of the real world. It's probably the first job they've had since they left school.
. They will have a diploma in "smoking ceremonies", "transgender activism" or the evils of logging in old-growth forests from some third-rate college that takes anyone they can find to keep their student numbers up. Of twelve months volunteering in a refugee centre.

. They have little or no qualifications for advising anyone, especially at the expense of the taxpayers.

So, what do these 'advisers' do? Brown finds it easier to list what they don't do:

. For starters, he says, they don't really advise at all. MPs quickly learn that if they actually take advice from these characters, they will be laughing stocks.

What they actually do is 100% self-serving, and too long and appalling to keep to 350 words. Suffice to say, Albanese is doing the right thing by pruning the.

Thank You for bringing this subject up for discussion.

I've always greatly admired Neil Brown and got to know
him well through work. He was the Liberal Party Rep.
for my electorate of Menzies and was very pro-library
orientated. A thorough gentleman, articulate, a hard
worker, and genuinely concerned about people and issues.
He always did his homework and knew what he was talking
about on any given subject. A rarity for a politician.

I'm sure that from his experiences in the political arena -
the views he's expressed should be well received and
listened to.

Albanese is doing the right thing by pruning the.
ttbn,
I think so too, let's hope he targets the real problem ones not like Newman did in Qld.

Indyvidual

Albo's not doing too badly so far - apart from the emissions nonsense - but I'm wondering if anyone is going to make the same noise they made about Morrison being absent during the bushfires, with Albo being absent during the floods.

ttbn,
I doubt if the GayBC & majority of Public Service will ever criticise & sabotage a Labor PM as they do with Coalition PMs.
It'd go against the doctrine of their hypocrisy.
But yes, Albo's at least talking a lot more sense than several of his predecessors.

The difference between our former PM Scott Morrison,
and our current PM - Anthony Albanese's travels is
that Morrison left during the fires for a family
holiday ('cause he didn't hold a hose). The current
PM has not had a day off since he got elected - and
his trips were work - not holidays from the QUAD and
NATO summits, Indonesia, Paris and Ukraine - all
work related.

Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott have all praised Albanese's
trips - and what he's managed to accomplish. He did not
leave at the height of the floods. He left prior to
the disasters. Now he's back and intends to do what
should have been done decades ago. He will look at
the long term solutions to our flood areas - and how
to ensure that things don't keep re-occuring. He will
look at ways that things need to change. And what changes
need to be made over time. Just throwing money at the
problem - won't solve anything.

Therein lies the difference between the two men.
One was all spin and photo opps. The current one is a
problem solver. For which we should all be grateful.
Only idiots continue to still snipe.