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What is democracy?A democracy is a nation in which the people rule themselves, either directly or through elected representatives.At the time of writing, the early 2020s, Australia was not ruled by the Australian people, it was ruled by one or another of two political parties, and they were both more under the influence of moneyed interests, particularly the fossil fuel industries, rather than the Australian people. |
This land of ours is being damaged by a government that is no longer democratic.
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Australia is a fragile land. If it is to be protected it must have a functional democratic government. The image is Blinman, SA's Flinders Ranges, 2021/05/09. |
Ways in which the Australian parliament has failed the Australian people:
Unequal access to parliamentThe following was extracted from an email received from Climate 200, an organisation that supports honest, worthy, independent people who hope to enter parliament, especially those who will push for action on climate change.[Toward the end of 2023] the Senate voted in favour of a motion moved by Independent ACT Senator, David Pocock, to establish an inquiry into lobbying.I've written more on how lobbyists employed by moneyed interests have been corrupting the Australian political system elsewhere on these page, for example in Vote Smart, Liberals don't want action on climate, government. Community independents; reason to hope for a more democratic future!Quoting Wikipedia "Ten candidates for the House of Representatives and one candidate for the Senate considered teal independents were elected in 2022, of which seven were elected for the first time."'Teal' independents are probably more properly called 'community' independents. This was a huge step toward bringing democracy back into the Australian Parliament. I have been doing what little I can to encourage more independent members of parliament for years; I can only hope that this trend continues. The apolitical organisation Climate 200 played a large part in supporting the Community independent politicians. They seem to have proved to be an organisation whose time had come; people seem at last to be getting fed-up with the status quo. |
Related pagesExternal pages...Climate 200 and more honest and independent politicians, a hope for the futureThe political system is letting down the Australian public; The Conversation, by Michelle Gratten, 2023/10/30. A quote: “Today’s Labor and Liberal backbenchers are much more quiescent than a few decades ago. Labor celebrates its more diverse caucus, but that doesn’t extend to a diversity of views at caucus meetings.”The teal win is a tectonic shift in Australian politics; Australian Financial Review, written by Kylea Tink, published 2022/06/01. A quote: "Two major parties more interested in maintaining power than purposeful policy have left Australia falling behind the rest of the world. The message from federal election ballot boxes is clear: Australians want politics to be done differently. Over the past 10 years, we had very little legislative reform. Politics, it seemed, had become a contest of egos and the two major parties were unable to work together to bring our country to a better place." On this site...My pages on politics are listed on my Australian Home page;The world's greatest moral challenge, Climate change; Support independent politicians, Vote smart; Thoughts on a possible confederation of independent politicians and candidates. Climate 200 came later and has been very successful in achieving what I was pushing for. |