How well represented are we ?

Well there is no need to be smart here . Rural regions are getting less and less representation. Otherwise why would 3 RI snow sit as stable reps in the house .
Is anyone else in Australia even remotely as well represented as those blokes are for their areas?
Look at how they talk freely about things that concern them and their electorates . What a breath of fresh air .
If these people represent reality in the real world,  what does your bloke do?
Surely most of our reps  look , smell and act like compromise - is that good for them or for our  democracy ?

We share deeply on the hustings with real concerns only  to find those who say they represent us produce piles of crap and spin that's enough to make ever single voter throw up.
Something has to change -

Go the representative Independants: National Press Club Today

The reason we have to change the current system is because we are losing the ability to have a person  represent us .The parties have sold their souls to please the marginal and noisy elements in a way which has lost them the credibility to lead .
Can any of them speak the truth any more  Oakeshott summarized the heed at the National press Club meeting this arvo by saying
the sky will not fall in just because we disagree . The 3 representative  independents " are not here to break but to  build"  - what a leadership team !

Caretaker role

Its 9:30am Sunday 22nd August , its clear to me that the independents will not form a government with Labor .
Greenlabor are too heavenly minded to be able to keep the caretaker mode going for long, making this the second election in a row to be greatly influence by religion - certainly not the last!  . Confession might just help the media and the people deal with the real dangers that ongoing denial over these matters holds for all of us .

6pm Saturday predictions

Been on the hustings all day, and I could be wrong. ( Won't say why and what I prefer --it would take too long)
1. Biggest informal vote ever in Australia's history
2. Hung parliament ( I hope not )
3. Back in 3years time or less wondering why we all allowed the Greens to take control the Senate ( all of us partly responsible because the Greens are trying to gain a stronger foothold .  As for that foothold in...yrs time , more like a toe hold.  
Enough said.  Its Six O'clock Saturday 21st August 2010 ,  and the polling booths are starting to count .

Nothing could be worse than the Greens in control

A lot of people at the polling centres won't think that . The long suffering public will meet well intentioned young people who think the Greens will do great things for the country -  talk about the future and the environment in exciting new ways which make the major parties  look almost backward in focus ( not true ,just looks that way) . Presumably too,  many will see them as an option apart from the major parties,  who never seem to stop squabbling .( the current ads don't help )

If only a few of those well intentioned people stood as independants instead of with a party whose primary l agenda items  is not what the majority of Australians want , let alone can accept .As Voltaire  might have said "I will fight to death to make sure their voice is heard .........but not to those few run  the country"  .

Julia Gillard doesn't recognise she has no credibility in education

Her performance pay idea is so out of touch it isn't even acceptable to the teachers she thinks she's helping. As Pyne, said the money will be lost , and she would know it too if she wasn't the only one running their policy on the run .