Politics - my spin. I feel whilst you may not agree with me on my political opinions and most probably have more knowledge, facts and understanding we can find common ground I hope in this - Australian Politics (and the world for that matter) has become a joke. No more meaningful than a fight at preschool, pointless discourse paid in full by me and you - taxes... More about them and less about the people! Question time, elections, speeches and policies seem to be all about making the other party look stupid, glorifying themselves or gaining power. I don't care for Labor or Liberals, Greens or Nationals but I damn well care about my country and its people. Neither party is anything more than a school yard brawl, self serving and seeking attention from all. Playing games with our money and country like it was a basketball.
Last week I sat in a conversation with a friend and we discussed in length problems plaguing our country from illegal immigrants to future war. If two relatively "under educated and qualified" young people could have a decent polite discussion with disagreements, strong opinions on volatile subjects and come up with feasible solutions, why is it too much to ask that a similar action take place by apparent mature, qualified teams of people backed by finance, man power and a country!? ITS PATHETIC and makes respecting our leaders hard. I feel politics should be more about the people than the party. There should be less to gain by being the leading group of people. We need a model of government that breeds integrity, team work and results. What if Labor won when Liberals won - rise together fall together so to speak? All of a sudden question time wouldn't be about making the other look stupid or calling names, it would be about getting the job done! Our leaders need to wake up to the reality that people don't respect the childlike games they play, the conjecture and name calling, the lack of anything productive for the people, the increased taxes and decreased service and the overall joke that they seem to make of the job which entails leading this great country. GROW UP and graduate from the school yard please. I don't care who leads but please lead. Please be there for the people. Please be more about helping those who need it and about setting an example rather than slamming your competition.
We don't care for your pathetic lack of vision nor who ate what for breakfast when your getting paid what you do. Dont try to sell us crap lies to cover up all the problems or give us band-aid solutions because you don't want to face the hard facts. I for one would respect an honest Prime minister who was up front about problems, short comings and failings of the country/government and worked with opposing parties to create solutions to repair past errors and move forward! A man or woman who did this is worthy to lead this country. Politics should be a position of public servant who doesn't gain wealth by leading but gains respect and pride in their achievements and public adoration. Is it too much to ask for a leader? A honest person not wavered by dollar signs nor driven by power or some other frail short coming, not afraid to speak the truth even if it hurts and not scared to make the hard choices. If parties worked together we wouldn't have a tug of war we would have a unified group of people creating motion! I am sick of the time wasted arguing about stupid issues or creating smoke screens like boat people to avoid attention on other bigger issues.
Lets talk effective solutions to letting illegal immigrants into our country without draining center-link and raising taxes, lets talk about the problems with indigenous Australians and how to effectively create solutions to the tough problems because I surely don't want to hear some Hollywood goss next question time. Go work for Scoop la if your more interested in gossip and name calling. If your struggling with ideas get some young people to sit in a room and brainstorm because Im sure we could come up with a solution. Lets see the shift back to being about how you can help the people not how you can get rich from the people or screw someone over to get to where you want to go.
A plane needs two wings to fly and our government needs to create a unity between its left and right wing political parties to actually take off and do something.
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