freediver wrote on Mar 15
th, 2011 at 6:44pm:
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The main change we want to bring about is to stop political parties from acting the way you recommend we act. The Australian political landscape needs more robust debate and more upfront policy. Our politicians have become slaves to the polls and to fear mongering. The end result of this is that no-one is actually leading. Our politics is chained to the whims of largely uninformed, disinterested public opinion.
You have put heaps of effort into it, no, not just effort, thought as well. For that alone well done.
I think this statement is interesting, it is suggestive that political (perhaps even constitutional) reform would (or perhaps should) be more clearly on the agenda.
Some good suggestions have been made regarding making it more "readable" so I wouldn't add anything to that. I might just suggest adding a clear statement about political reform, but only because the statement above seems to me to be alluding to that end.
I actually would also consider that our largely disinterested and uninformed public have no motivation to change because they are chained to a self serving political system that mostly benefits inept and disreputable politicians and a minority of their sycophants.... Hence another push for systemic change.