The main problem with our political system are the politicians.
You see, our political representatives are – for the most part – professionals. You could count those who’d worked a real job on one hand.
Parliament is supposed to be representative of the population but is instead filled with people who have spent their entire working lives in the system.
Our representatives are the least representative you could possibly imagine.
You know how it goes…. They get a taste for skullduggery in university politics. Then they land a job as a political staffer where their political skills are tuned. Then, if they prove their loyalty and ability to toe the party line, they are rewarded with pre-selection.
After a couple of attempts they are elected to Parliament where they work hard to honour those who put them there. They base their policies on polling rather than on any conviction or principle and they base their voting in the Parliament on how best to stay in the good graces of those who put them there. Ask them about running a small business or about trying to make ends meet or about managing staff and they wouldn’t have a clue. Yet these are the people running our country.
That’s why people like me – who entered the Senate later in life, having worked in the real world and having built my own business – are so important in Canberra. We are there not there to honour factional deals and to pay back political benefactors.
Yet people like me are maligned in the media and targeted by the bureaucracy. It’s not difficult to understand why. We haven’t marinated in the incestuous Canberra juice, and so don’t behave in the predictable way the swamp requires senators to behave in order to preserve the status quo.
I’ll say exactly what I’m thinking, without regard for which political powerbroker it might offend. I’m there to speak truth, not to seek another term and then another until I qualify for a generous pension.
Disrupters have always been a danger to those who have played the system. You only need to look at how the Deep State has gone after Donald Trump to see how much the ‘system’ abhors a person from outside it.
Trump has been maligned, defamed, sued, prosecuted and shot at. All because he threatens to burst the bubble that a bunch of full-time sycophants have relied upon to enrich themselves while pretending to care about citizens.
This is why your support for my role in the Senate means so much to me. Australians must continue to demand that the Lower and Upper Houses are filled with people who have real life experience and who really care about voters rather than about factional mates and faceless powerbrokers.
I’m one of a very small group who bring to the Australian Parliament real world experience and a voice that is my own. The future of our country demands we get more people like me into Parliament. And with your continued help we will.
Thanks again for your generous support. It’s making a difference to the future of our country.
