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Don't you miss the antics of our beloved politicians who used question time in parliament for entertainment and point scoring?

Has democracy come down so low that we are funding with our taxes this stupendous circus?

Have we got so little respect left for the sovereignty of our country and the authority of our institutions that we have to make voting compulsory?

If Australia has gone to the dogs let us bark in unison.

In an interesting twist of history the two major parties are now held to ransom by a handful of independent who actually left those very political parties in disgust not so long ago.

Having made a name for themselves with their local constituents these independent parliamentarians chose to stand on their own platform to bring policies into laws where party politicking was sidetracking them.

Isn't it comical that a party leader now has to crawl at the feet of a former colleague, brother in arms, to get the chance to form a minority government?

If the electoral bandwagon comes around every three years, how much time do our leaders have to address long term issues where the future of our nation is at stake?

Instead they spend all their time in office skirting at the edges, asserting their grip on power to improve their chances for the next election - never addressing the core issues because someone else might just get the credit for it!

Australia is burdened with 3 layers of government (federal, state and local) who keep fighting with each other rather than governing in harmony.

We pride ourselves of being an advanced democracy but there is just as much decay and corruption behind the scenes as just about an African dictatorship. (Remember the banana republic statement).

The political parties are held to ransom by powerful international lobby groups who push their own interests. The state governments compete with each other to attract job-creating industries (even now sport events) with incentives that fly in the face of law-abiding citizens who never got such a preferential treatment.

Our foreign policy is basically to tow the line behind the United States. If we can't join the European Union why not have a referendum to add the Australian States and Territories to the existing 50 American Stars and Stripes? We could do away with Canberra and have our own Primaries Road show - more prime time for the TV channels, what do you think?

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