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Alastair Leith's avatar

the abolition of ATSIC was outrageous. in Australia we have a tradition of (occasionally) prosecuting political corruption and/or nepotism/cronyism in the federal and criminal law courts where there’s is overwhelming evidence of wrong doing by elected and unelected officials. i’ve never heard anybody call for the abolition of the Australian Federal Parliament in spite of the long standing evidence of grey corruption. The influence of the fossil fuel industries continue using nothing more democratic than money and political lobbying to for example, torpedo the long standing Labor policy ambitions and platforms around the need for a new code of environmental protection in light of the disfunction of the existing EP Act and the curve ball Climate Crisis brings to all ecological issues for just one example. another example of grey corruption everywhere would be developers at the municipale and state levels of government. nobody says let’s dissolve the constitution because developers are out of control.

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Paul Norton's avatar

I think the near-absence of Coalition Lower House MPs from much of Australia's metropolitan areas is as salutary a sign as any of their defeat in the Culture Wars. It is, I think, closely related to their unknowledgeable policy stances in relation to anything relating to the employment and professional aspirations of Australian women.

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