Get the politics out of our democracy. Root and branch reform of our representative and legislative systems is the only way to seize back power from the interest groups, lobbyists and party factionalism.
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The dissolution of the party system is essential to ensure that parliamentary service is about representation not personal power or the destruction of the other side.
Candidates will have to be truly local people who develop a profile in the electorate, campaign on their own personal platform and earn their votes because of that.
No more parachuting into seats or favours required later in gratitude for endorsement.
Parliament will then be a council of true independent representatives whose personal interests lie only in those of their electorate.
Portfolios, policy and legislation should be managed by the committee system with no ministers wielding ultimate power over the agenda.
People advocating a particular interest in that legislation may only make representations to the committee in public.
Candidates should only be able to serve a single eight-year term so no representative will be subject to the whims of shock jocks, media campaigns and populism for fear of not being re-elected.
Sounds like democracy to me.
