Politics is a dirty word

The on-going dual citizenship debacle hitting Federal politicians highlights the need to change the system. Get rid of Federal Parliament – we don’t need it. Australia is over-governed with vast armies of politicians and fat cat bureaucrats. Australians do not elect Prime Ministers, they elect local politicians who get together and appoint a party leader who is automatically Prime Minister if that party has a majority of seats in Parliament. A large part of the problem could be solved by getting rid of political parties. Currently, politicians owe more allegiance to their parties than to the people who elect them. A next step will be to abolish the extravagance of a Federal Parliament with all the costs associated with duplicating Ministers and Departments when each State already has working bureaucracies in place. Let COAG run the country.

The Government's decision to postpone Parliament because it feared losing a vote on the floor of the House, is outrageous. If the Government doesn't have the numbers to get on with its job then a snap election should resolve the problem for them.Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced cuts in income tax in the hope of buying votes. But we don't need a Federal Parliament anyway, COAG should run the country - saving billions of dollars in unnecessary bureaucracies.

Holding a referendum to consider four year terms for Federal politicians would be yet another waste of money. Why limit the referendum to just that question? We need a drastic change to the constitution to get rid of Federal government altogether. Scrapping federal elections completely would remove the most wasteful tier of Government and provide huge benefits. All major functions are carried out by the States, and COAG should run the country.