A bit less fetishisation of 'stability' might be good. For one thing, 'stability' is a virtue of executive government; putting the emphasis back on parliament should help improve a focus on policy instead of electoral maths.
You’ve written about this far more eloquently than I could, but it’s astonishing how we’ve internalised the two-party system as the default natural order of things, and not a relatively recent development that came after decades of fluidity in the colonial and early post-Federation parliaments.
If it isn't stable (however defined), the problem won't be the crossbench. It will be the major parties protecting what they see as their turf. I'm not sure it makes much sense to reward them for this sort of veiled threat by giving them a majority. And remember, the flipside of stable is corrupt.
So you are saying we have a choice between unstable government & corruption?
I don’t think the Australian public would like a corrupt government. And I don’t think they want to go to the polls every few moths because nobody can keep a majority
So the last nine years of a Liberal government was not corrupt? 🤔
And we’ll have it again if they weasel their way in.
Highly unlikely for corrupt behaviour with Independents, from what I have seen, they have integrity.
But they’re mostly women so there’s that.
I'm not saying that at all. I don't think it will be unstable.
I'm saying that the price of stability has been corruption, soft and strong. That's what the article is about. And I'm over rewarding it.
'Stability' is often just a facade. eg: the previous LNP Gov't only survived by appeasing a bunch of Nats crazies who repeatedly killed proposed climate and energy policies.
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Nothing stays the same, there’s constant change (as it should) what does stability in politics even mean?
I don’t think the Australian public would like a corrupt government. And I don’t think they want to go to the polls every few moths because nobody can keep a majority
And we’ll have it again if they weasel their way in.
Highly unlikely for corrupt behaviour with Independents, from what I have seen, they have integrity.
But they’re mostly women so there’s that.
And while I agree corruption is committed mostly by men it is not exclusive to them
I'm saying that the price of stability has been corruption, soft and strong. That's what the article is about. And I'm over rewarding it.