Politics is a dirty word

Politicians need to be convinced to change their minds on an intensive 'free range' standard for egg production . The sheer volumes of manure make intensive free range production dangerous for animal health, and us humans eating contaminated eggs. Intensive cage eggs are likely to be less dangerous than intensive free range. Outbreaks of food poisoning have increased in Western Australia apparently as a result of poor handling of eggs. Eggs are safe if handled properly on farm, during delivery and in kitchens. Problems are likely to increase after politicians approved an intensive standard for free range production which risks major contamination. As each hens produces half a cubic metre of manure a year, hens on farms complying with the new standard will be living in a huge dung pile of 5000 cubic metres.

I have previously described the decline of our political system, and mentioned the benefits of anarchy. To push this a little further,our country is divided into two sides, the right and the left; Liberal/National Conservatives and labor/Greens The party system does not meet Australia’s best interests. Far from uniting us, parties divide and weaken our community. They are the cause of the ineffectiveness of government. They create mob mentality, corruption and pit citizen against citizen where the common goal of a better country is lost to party politics causing the dysfunction seen in Canberra. Our leaders can’t lead because they are not individuals, or even representatives of the people, they are servants of their political party, where the intelligent individual is replaced by a one-dimensional system easily susceptible to corruption. In the US, George Washington is on the record saying““Political parties may now and then answer popular ends, but they are likely in the course of ti...

In Australia, politicians are regarded as one of the lowest forms of life – and recent events in Canberra demonstrate that our version of democracy isn’t working. In my opinion, the basic problem is political parties – they should be banned. Politicians owe more allegiance to their parties than to the people who elected them. The citizenship saga was totally mishandled. Those politicians who were found by the High Court not to be eligible to sit in Parliament were never properly elected so there was no need for costly by elections – the seats should have been given to whoever came second in the Federal election. Then the dual citizens (once they satisfied the High Court ruling) would have had the opportunity to stand at the next Federal election Instead taxpayers were slugged for a series of unnecessary by elections – mainly in a desperate effort to shore up a floundering government. So much for democratic processes. As for Barnaby Joyce, voters in New England must be feeling like co...

It’s a great pity that voters in New England didn’t keep Barnaby Joyce out of Parliament when they had a chance. As Minister for Transport he is now leading the charge against electric vehicles on our roads. What a clown!