We want change, an obvious motivator for MPs is keeping their supporters on side and winning seats with policies that have public appeal.
To this end the recent Dick Smith meeting and the subsequent radio interview with AOPA’s Ben Morgan are the means to attract public notice and then for politicians to provide policies to cater for this consciousness.
AOPA or the new AGAA group could run a candidate to oust Minister McCormack. A campaign office in Wagga would undoubtedly get lots of volunteers. I’ll pledge a week, anyone else?
Minister McCormack will try his best to prevent this from happening, all groups will be invited into his Alladin type cave full of glittering treasures but only for a look while there’s another set of consultations and reviews so that he is satisfied with a concensus as defined by himself. By then the delay will take the problem beyond the next election.
It may be that as Dick Smith postulates it has to get worse yet, and so bad that everyone in Parliament will want to make real changes. I sincerely hope this does not occur because it will cause even more harm to many fellow Aussies.