Hey all,

I’m going to make a few posts here, firstly to give you an idea of how I feel which is hopefully how some of what you feel. I am assuming that you too are disillusioned otherwise you wouldn’t be on this site at all.

Firstly, I want action, I want blood. By blood I mean change for the better. And I want it now. I don’t want to wait another 30 years until someone notices that John Howard actually passed away in 2002 and has been reactivated by some Liberal scientist. Maybe, as Dr Who, who is back on air again!

I have had a gutful of our political system as it in no way represents what it is advertised to be. Our politicians call it democracy but that it certainly is not. To me democracy is an illusion, an ideal that just doesn’t work when human beings get involved. In other words, exactly the same as every other political system, it fails when humans start taking the positions of authority etc. Just like the book Animal Farm the few quickly become "more equal" than the rest. Power corrupts and once it does you need a war to take that power off those that have it. A war does not have to be guns and fighting as we have recently seen in a couple of ex Russian spin off countries. The people just stood together and said "ENOUGH".

Democracy is defined as something along the lines of "Government for the people, by the people." If you think about that you can see that is not possible unless every person agrees with both the aims and actions of a government. In Australia we are essentially 50% Labor, 50% non Labor most of the time. That goes up and down a bit to vary which party is actually in power at any given time. Whichever party is in power though effectively the other 50% are being governed by a government they don’t want. So let’s admit it. Democracy does not exist. Nor will it ever.

What we have settled for is a government where representatives of all the smaller areas of Australia supposedly represent the aims and needs of the people who elected them. The reality is that elections are simply about deciding who gets to hold the purse and make the laws. Once a government is elected they claim a mandate for every twisted little vision their aged leader may have had since boyhood. Yes, we have a school yard setting as our government as that is how it is played and that is how the players act. And bullies dominate as ever, for the short term.

Yes, we can ring talk back shows, write to papers, blog away madly and talk our families ears off but none of that changes anything. What change has happened as a result of a talk back campaign? Zippo except for those that the host is paid to produce. Similarly with papers and TV, including the ABC.

We need something different to bring about change. We can’t change the political parties that are there as they have control. Why would they change? Think people, think.

Yes, I am angry. Angry at the abuse of our reluctance to call a spade just that. Angry at the level of abuse we see from our PM, our Premiers and every other level of Government, including Public Servants. Angry at the lack of choice our voting system gives us. Angry at the unequal treatment of people in our society. Angry at the greed of the rich and the apathy of the bulk of Australians. Oh how I wish I was still one of the apathetic, I was much happier then , although ignorant. But something stirred me, made me look and I don’t like what I see. Many have seen this before me and many before them also so I’m no wheel inventor, except to myself. But now I can’t look away. I’m buggered! I care.

Are you angry too? Are you wanting change? Do you want to be treated like a human being and not a "client", a vote or taxpayer only? Do you want the Public Service/service that you should have? Rhetorical questions all of them, of course you do. And you can do something about it if you want to. It won’t be easy and it won’t be quick but the alternative is more of what we have, only more and more of it.

I’ll leave off this post here as it’s intended just to introduce how I feel and sound out how you feel. I’ll put a couple more posts as well, separately in which I say what I think is wrong, where the priorities for me are and another suggesting actions for you to tear apart, change, develop. Yes, I want to stir you up, get your ideas out, get something going.

Just so long as you start doing something and not just sitting there wishing things would change or get better. Don’t think for one second that things would be different if Howard had lost to Latham. There’s no real difference between Labor and Liberal/Nationals today. I live in Brisbane and have the indignity of being shown contempt by a Federal coalition government, a Labor State government and the Brisbane City Council which has a Liberal Lord Mayor but a majority of Labor councillors. All three possibilities and they all produce the same results. Promises, lies, avoidance, endless studies with much the same result. Nothing happens.