Firstly I really hate to borrow and old Labor slogan and secondly to use this blog as a political bandwagon, but! After this last week in politics I am getting even more disheartened about the quality, in every way, of our politicians on both sides of the house. The asylum seeker debate this week highlighted everything there is not to like about our politicians, they are ALL totally incapable of dealing with an issue without trying to score points off each other. What do you do when you have an incompetent government, an opposition who in reality offers nothing positive and the current third force in Australian politics, the Greens, who are at best naive and at their worst dangerous?
Maybe it really is time for a third force to arise in Australian politics, a moderate conservative party that can speak for the majority of Australians, not the myriad of interest groups that now influence our politicians.
There was one highlight this week, Malcolm Turnbull's speech to the house in tribute to the late Robert Hughes.
Are there enough people interested to get things moving, or are we continuing on our way as the world champions of apathy?
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