Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change
vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 month agoThere was a significant push for one year terms early on, I’d much rather see that than a reduction in our democratic voice.
That sounds like a mess, especially if the public service has to deal with changing governments all of the time (if there was public service reform that limits the influence of the government in power I’d be for that, but that is challenging). And whether you like it not, the incentives would be for governments to constantly be in campaign mode with shorter terms.
brisk@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The ideal is that a functional government doesn’t change all the time, but a nonfunctional one can be removed before too much damage is done. Consistency isn’t beneficial if it’s consistently bad.
I can’t argue against the constant campaigning.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The problem is that then governments are slaves to the populist vote. There’s been quite a few projects and policies in Australia that have been short term pain for long term gain.