One of the great problems with representational government is that some -very necessary- reforms are just never going to happen, and others will take a ridiculously long time.

Why? Because in our system, we have career politicians, and they ain’t ever gunna vote themselves out of a job, or vote themselves less money, or vote themselves less power.

Witness the Republican Debate. I would suggest a clear majority of Australians are in favour of an Australian Republic. So why did we vote against it? Because the only models on offer were those favoured by our pollies, and which supported their status quo.

We might consider Australia to be one of the most over represented nations on Earth, with pollies at the local, state and federal level, at a huge cost to tax payers.

Why not get rid of the states? Because our career politicians will never vote themselves out of a job.

Hence this category. People’s Initiatives. We the people need to be able to make demands of our representatives about what we want.

You want the world to change? You think the world needs to change? Well get off your butt and make it happen, cause no one’s gunna hand it to you.

Feel free to make a suggestion here. Who knows, if you tell enough people about it, and they agree with you, we might be able to put together a petition.

It’s high time average Aussies stopped just laughing about how useless and corrupt our pollies are, and started doing something about it – even if it’s only pressing a ‘vote’ button.