Dated September 1, 2025.

Future For Australia 

We need to improve & provide a stronger & fairer political system in Australia. 

  1. Money gives political power (if & when desired). 

  2. There are six (6) western power groups: - 

    1. The banks / financiers 

    2. The insurance industry 

    3. The pharmaceutical industry 

    4. The weapons industry 

    5. The mining industry 

    6. The tech industry. 

  3. The manoeuvre is easy today due solely to a COMPLICIT SOCIETY. ( if I have no interest  in the subject matter I do not care). 

  4. The wealthy 10% of the western world are complicit & most continue to “chase” more  money making at most cursory judgments on a political issue. 

  5. The other 90% of the western world have lost interest in politics because politics for them is too hard to understand today. 

    --- the macro & micro analysis of policy; 

    --- the much greater number of fields of public policy; 

    --- the complexity of the public financial accounts today; 

    --- the lack of natural leadership to say something simply & with compassion &  conviction. 

  6. Governments have become “ mere puppets” for this small but very powerful group of  persons in the western world who seek political power for their benefit. Such has made  government & opposition party policy far left or right (policy by the few for the few). And  these policies are circulated in literally one line summations via a sophisticated social  media system. Simply put a mere short statement with little or no material to fully  understand a policy to a complicit general public. The modern pace of life & the limited  time & opportunity for the citizen to properly & diligently consider policy plus the  contemporary pursuit for money at all costs has created a complicit society & made it  easy through social media for politicians to become lazier & basically “do a rough sketch  with a little colour” to win the day!

  7. The political party structure & systems need an urgent & significant overhaul. They all  operate the same way & all are imbedded today with a far too narrow political  philosophy. One for the owners of business capital, one for the workers & poor, one for  the farming community & the other for the environment & retention of various eco  systems. All parties in Australia need to provide better systems to get better candidates.  Political parties should seek to & engage with a much wider group of candidates. Just as  I have written about strengthening the public service by making it a career subject at  school from year 10 & thereafter a university degree. The same course would no doubt  bring “ interested young potential politicians” into the arena! 

  8.  The third fundamental flaw with our political party system is receiving public donations.  Such practice should have been prohibited many years ago. Each political party should  receive an agreed amount from the public purse. The current system stinks. Australia is  today more dishonest in politics, business & socially than it has ever been. And it is  

    getting worse each year as money becomes the all consuming god for Australian  citizens to worship. With this knowledge parliament continues to play around with the  long standing public donations to political party rules & protocols. Simply agree to  prohibit all political donations & agree on a prescribed formula for monies to be  advanced to political parties & independents for general elections. 

  9. The fourth fundamental flaw is the failure of any political party to have a 25 year policy  vision. I have created my own political policy vision for the next 25 years. I want to  abolish state governments & reconstruct & reconfigure local councils & make them  agents of the national government. And we become a republic by 2050. And that day  becomes our National Day of celebration etc. Increase the term of each parliament to  four (4) years. It does not matter if such vision statement is discontinued or significantly  varied. It is the vision & passion that we want to see in the politician & the party today. 

    What can be further done to improve the quality of government in Australia today?

 1.Strengthen the right to become a politician. 

 (i) must work at least ten (10) years in business; 

 (ii) limit tenure to two (2) four(4) year terms; 

 (iii)remuneration should be average weekly earnings & the various fringe benefits inc.  superannuation should be in line with the average worker. Leaders should lead by example.  Such has certainly not been done in post WWII Australian parliaments this century.  

2.Strengthen the public service & ancillary government & semi government organisations. 

(i) As discussed above and in my earlier with papers. 

3.Draw a new Constitution & abolish state governments and restructure municipal councils and  make them simply agents of a national government. 

(i) A new Constitution is required if only to satisfy the founders of our 125 year old  document. Not one of those persons would have imagined that with the social & economic  changes over the past 125 years we would still have the same Constitution. A completely new  world with aeroplanes & now drones & computers & the internet require us to restructure our  political system---there is no need for joint constitutional powers today. It is a gross  mismanagement of people & money. And in the end the massive cost for such is paid by the  taxpayer citizen. We can effectively and efficiently manage political business from literally  anywhere in the country today. 

Conclusion: - 

Today we lack politicians with natural political leadership of people. The best current politicians  are the independents. But they know only too well the unfairness of the current system - - their  employee support allowance & other allowances to assist the work of an independent is  pathetic. And simply done to impede & make life & work as an independent that much harder. 

Political parties have become “boys clubs” or “exclusive clubs” much the same as big business & major sporting clubs like the AFL & horserace clubs. The “club doors” need to be opened to  one and all at no or little cost. 

So today we have conflict not consensus because of different political attitudes of the far left &  far right which as I have outlined above are growing weaker & weaker each year. 

Government should always be for, by & of the people. That last sentence is “pure gold”. Include  as an addendum the Plato political analysis for a politician to always act for the “public good”  (the majority) & the political parties in Australia today have the “cornerstone” for the  development of a stronger party system. 

Fail to act & the 2034 parliament may well have more independents than members of the  political parties.