Time to answer the 200 million dollar question. Why has the RRP drifted along?
Because successive governments have allowed it to drift along.
The
important 200 million dollar question is: Why have successive governments allowed it to drift along?
Answer: Because it makes not a schmick of difference to the electoral fortunes of the major parties: The electorate inevitably gives them alternating turns at the trough.
Yes, the Frankenstein continues to eat money and leave a trail of destruction in the GA sector with no improvement in safety outcomes. But those outcomes haven’t and won’t make or break any government. So they only need to
pretend to care.
The collection of Senators with the balance of power in the Senate
and the freedom to vote in accordance with their conscience rather than the party’s dictation are the glimmer of hope.
