L Balloon regarding your advice to Dick Smith and your opinion that he has unique power and the inference that he could cause a number of MPs to lose their seats. I don’t see this as realistic when one considers the huge effort by thousands of political party personnel and millions of dollars that go make up a general election. This is a competition that drowns out all but the main issues of welfare money and the maintenance of average lifestyles.
The surest way to get reform for GA is by GA people to engage with their MPs and get political parties together agreeing to policy change. Dick Smith looked to have a fundamental change, agreed surprisingly by both sides, to the CA Act in the bag, a great effort which I’m sure did not come overnight or without considerable effort (unpaid). Too bad BJ took a tumble but maybe the new Minister might carry that forward.
We can can write, ring, email and meet our MPs and exhort them to push that legislative action.