Australia's politic is a joke?
The topic was what Sis requested for me to talk about. Well, I honestly don't know much about Australia's politic but I do have some points to make.
The strangest thing about Australia's politic is the election cycle: it is a mere 3 years. What on earth can one party hope to achieve in 3 years? The first 0.5 year is honey moon. The 3rd year is spent on preparing for election. That leaves only 1.5 years to do real work.
How much can be accomplished in 1.5 years that will hopefully leaves such a good impression on the voters and encourage them to re-elect that party again? Remember, any major project involves lots of work such as establishing objectives (this could be argued for months!), committees, draft bills, debates, redrafts, debates, posturing, gazette, implementation. Also, how about its effect? Will the effect of any major project be felt in time for the next election?
Such short election cycle probably encourages the government to just try to come up with short-term wins or populist or tinkering with the easy stuff or any of the above. Tough choices which are theoretically correct but are either unpopular or of which results will only be known beyond the cycle (or both) are probably the last thing the government wants to do. Some actions that are effective to combat certain scenario of inflation (vaguely recalling my Economics lectures) take years to have the desired effect.
Yet popular choices are not necessarily good for the country. Hopefully the more knowledgeable voters are, the likely it is that the right choices are taken.
N.B: I'm wondering how the carbon tax will play out? I'm pretty sure it'll be implemented but I'm more keen on seeing its effects.
The strangest thing about Australia's politic is the election cycle: it is a mere 3 years. What on earth can one party hope to achieve in 3 years? The first 0.5 year is honey moon. The 3rd year is spent on preparing for election. That leaves only 1.5 years to do real work.
How much can be accomplished in 1.5 years that will hopefully leaves such a good impression on the voters and encourage them to re-elect that party again? Remember, any major project involves lots of work such as establishing objectives (this could be argued for months!), committees, draft bills, debates, redrafts, debates, posturing, gazette, implementation. Also, how about its effect? Will the effect of any major project be felt in time for the next election?
Such short election cycle probably encourages the government to just try to come up with short-term wins or populist or tinkering with the easy stuff or any of the above. Tough choices which are theoretically correct but are either unpopular or of which results will only be known beyond the cycle (or both) are probably the last thing the government wants to do. Some actions that are effective to combat certain scenario of inflation (vaguely recalling my Economics lectures) take years to have the desired effect.
Yet popular choices are not necessarily good for the country. Hopefully the more knowledgeable voters are, the likely it is that the right choices are taken.
N.B: I'm wondering how the carbon tax will play out? I'm pretty sure it'll be implemented but I'm more keen on seeing its effects.
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