Want Better Political Representation For Your Electorate? Try This & Maybe Start Fixing The Entire System. Starts With You

Mentioned before, the big reset most countries need began in the US & will reach our shores. Political parties will have to be clear, precise & up front about their organisation structure, their values, standards, goals & ideology. NOT THEIR CORE GOALS to allow massive wriggle room to do the opposite for political expediency but actually map out who really owns & controls their party & what hills they're prepared to die upon. It was starting before Trump but was a whimper trying to gain volume. Trump tried to drain the swamp & although he was in most ways the perfectly wrong person for that job, he did push good, perhaps timid people aside and breached the locked door. He's gone & the those good timids have gained their voice & their audience. The pendulum is swinging & resistence will be on both sides of politics.

There is no honest "Sensible centre" they're generally money seeking void fillers who are less likely to join major parties, sense the shift & go to the new push to make money & fame. They have to be vetted & only those with good STATESMANSHIP traits be encouraged to take up the cudgels.

Meanwhile in Australia, its beginning too. Identity Politics & Intersectionality is being called out as the vile poisonous cancer that it is. Lib/Nats & Labor are beginning to come under attack for being theatre props and the TEALS are just intellectual corruption via the side door. I mistrust them like serious sunburn. Many are of of the under 55 think-they're-affluent-and-influential-brigade. Some may well be Chardonnay Socialists, some may well see the huge opportunity to be crafty a different way as younger people, some younger people fall for thecurrently popular spell of New-Socialism, Democratic Socialism.

The shift here really won't come until all parties get their governance right & the values tattooed onto their foreheads & stop morphing into the next trending version of whatever-gets-me-elected-and-wins-government. The recalibration in the Political Classes, the ruling class, the reform of the bureacracy & reinstalling fully open and adhered to values will take some years, due the fierce opposition by those with hands on the gears, the wheel & the pedals. Its very clear, we need to return the idea of the parliament being full of actual representatives who represent. Parties controlled totally by lay members. A Public Service that serves the public, not ruling them & the people deciding where & how big or small the public service needs to be.

Politicians should bank on being in for one term & anything after that a bonus. They need to be able to pick a hill to die on if they're to represent their ideology. At present they can represent their leader, their party (which can & do differ wildly), their electorate but quite often they only truly represent that which elevates them & re-elects them.

We need Wise Progressives vs REAL Conservatives in all Parliaments. We're some way off that but we can creep it back. Parties are all hollowed out, it begins with them & it may require hundreds if not thousands of people not protesting in the streets but joining the parties, starting new branches & flooding proper change for proper improvement to allow actuall STATESMANSHIP to be revived, aspired to & maintained.

THAT is what draining the swamp really is, putting the Public Service in its place &removing all scoundrels by install world's best practice Governance & setting the out the not negotiable values & standards & keeping them with full noble intent...even unto defeat

That is what Wise Progressives vs REAL Conservatives look like That is where the noble honour lives So how do you make the change in the political class level from the ground level we live on? It could actually be easier than you think but will take some effort. Form a group of like minded friends...ensure you agree on the points above and the desperate need for change. Then, have a meeting. Yes, you're going to have to have a meeting. You don't need a leader, perhaps you don't want a leader but get someone to run the meeting and set out the aims & the plan.

1. Seek out as many like minded people as possible who want a party that is what its supposed to be & serves the lay members intentions.
2. Once you have enough people, invite the party MPs of the party you'd be ok joining.
3. When they're there, tell them you're all considering joining a party, possibly their party. Get them to outline there party, their values & standards. Then ask the questions...
   
4. Question 1 - What happens to those who fail to hold those values or standards?
5. Question 2 - Set out their Governance Structure, each level and/or official's fiduciary duty & the process & penalties for lapsing. That's all levels...branch President to State President, all elected officials, committeess, Members of Parliament and who they actually report to.
6. Question 3 - Copy of the constitution. See if it compares favourably to what they described when answering Question 2.
7. Question 4 - Ask what happens to those who breach the constituion, are they suspended pending an inquiry & is the decision, the fate of the alleged breacher able to be sent to the organisations AGM if the accused and/or lay members are not statisfied.
8. Question 5 - When was the Constitution last reviewed and last time it was altered. If it's 5 years or more, they have already hit a mark against their name & suggests there is a highly likelihood of very poor governance & the ability for crafty person or persons to manipulate & corrupt the system for gain outside the party/organisation's values.
9. Question 6 - People resigning from the party, do they have exit interviews? They must or whatever intellectural bankruptcy/corruption is going to continue. If someone leaves just because they didn't get their way...prove it & if so, so be it...fair bump, play on and best regards.
10. Question 7 - Do committees have performance reviews? Do MPs have regular performance reviews?
11. Question 8 - Who is the board? This is serious. They are the ones who are legally responsible for decisions being made. Not a small group on the side not reporting but instead endearing theatrical performances to get people squared away so to be quickly ignored. These are the people who are legally responsible for the decision making, they are the decision makers, they properly report their decisions. They do all the STRATEGIC THINKING, the executive/management do all the STRATEGIC PLANNING & then regularly report back progress to the board who then assess the progress, performance or lack thereof of the executive/management. If this is lacking...a political party will be controlled by Members of Parliament or a faction or a corporate psychopath/s...or all of the above.
12. Question 9 - Ask why the person or persons came to you meeting. It should be the State President and hopefully the nearest Branch President. If its a local MP or the Political Party's leader that's fine but Organisational Governance is not their wheelhouse, parliament is. They should stick in their lane & not comment on internal governance or any of the above questions or its a red flag. Serious red flag if they seem to be the big wheel running everything. If there is a governance problem from the above questions, you cannot ask the political leader what they're going to do to solve it. It's not their sphere of influence beyond approaching the state president, his/her other elected officals & asking for change. There must be a seperation of the Party & the Organisation and of the two, only the organisation is superior.

This is just the short list, but these need to be thooroughly fleshed out and sorted out seperately BEFORE you get onto to any political issue questions. If the governance isn't right, they cannot govern or represent. Call me cynical but many candidates in all parties were chosen because there were no others or because they reflected characteristics or popular local appeal in order to win a seat. It might be race, gender, age, physical attractiveness that is held as equally important than ability, skill, experience & the ability to speak up on tricky topics and defend the truth that might cause discomfort to some. Yes there are parties who've operated with out of date constitutions & only turn to them when its in a particular interest but side step the constituion when it suits. It's not a selective optional mechanism. Its the go to how-to-manual at all times. If they've not reviewed the constitution in ages...RED FLAG. If they say they have, ask what was changed. Sometimes a review says no changes required & a constitution in the rear should list the dates of each & every review. If there is no review list, RED FLAG. If their "board of directors' (they cannot not have one) have AICD trained members and things are in disarray, RED FLAG. They're either getting out numbered or they're complicit in the poor governance. If you get no joy on these matter RED FLAG. If the party officials don't want to come & meet with your group RED FLAG IF only MPs offer to come RED FLAG. Red Flag before a theatrical performance. Try it. Good luck getting any officials from any party to accept your groups invitation. Good luck keeping MPs quiet & only commenting on matters before Parliament & leaving the governance matters to the "directors & the chairman" Personally I'd be very wary of any political organisation that has ALL of its MPs on "the board" but chances are they've done this because MPs make an annual contribution to the party. Sounds good & legit...except if I dropped several thousand dollars into a party, do you think I'd get a Board Seat? I would bloody hope not, so nor should a MP...who, at any moment they crack the willies, just resign from the party, pocket their co-contribution to the party & going on financially better off for the rest of their term with no lay members keeping them to account with values & standards. TAKE HOME MESSAGE - You and your friends probably won't do all of this, you probably think you wont get party officials (not MPs) to visit. You might think you won't get good honest answers if they do come...but this explains why STATESMANSHIP is near on dead. It also sets out the best way of draining the swamp...you have to drain the swamp in each & every party first. There will be no democracy in Australia, no Statesmanship or nation first until you drain the swamp water out of each & every party. At present, each & every party is highly likely to be inundated in stinking water...excused by snake oil salesmen & gilded word workers.