Pixelated Semantics

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How to break a democracy

Reportage from News.com goes close to the heart of the failure of Australian democracy under the conservative extremists:

'Special Minister of State Eric Abetz, who has portfolio responsibility for electoral matters, will use a keynote speech next Tuesday to spell out the case for reform, including the introduction of voluntary voting in Australia.

Senior Coalition figures said last night that there was an appetite within the Government for change, despite previous difficulties in winning over a sceptical public. [...]

Committee [on Electoral Matters] chairman Mr Smith has been spearheading the campaign to increase parliamentary terms to four years, a move that will have strong business support.'

The 'reform' word is bandied around again to disguise what is made explicit in the next paragraph: the government's 'appetite for change' is not supported or wanted by the voting population; it is the imposition of a minority ideology, unrestrained by requirements to represent the interests of the people. The final paragraph shows clearly one major aspect of what is wrong: predicating their 'reforms' on 'strong business support' when business does not vote, while ignoring those who do not support it, and who do vote. The only interest in longer terms for politicians and voluntary voting comes from those who benefit most: the politicians.

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