Labor & LNP the parasitic twins on the Australian Body Politic.

I have written about this malaise in the past, but it was most refreshing to hear that giant in the Australian Media, Kerry O'brien articulate on Q & A last night:

"I feel very strongly about it. Our two-party system is letting us down. Both sides have to step up and face the responsibility for that."

Something they will never take responsibility for, primarily because no one will hold them to account. Most decent investigative journalism has been systematically dismantled by successive governments of both persuasions. Both are guilty of using the ABC and SBS as their 'play things', constantly interfering with management and the editorial independence of both organisations. How do I know this? look no further than the Emma Alberici fiasco wherein our then PM (Turnbull) simply picked up the phone to tell ABC management who should be on air and who should not. This stuff is not ‘new’ its just never been so blatantly outed.

I’m like Kerry, I see us on a very perilous path. I too am worried about those disaffected and disenfranchised members of our society that turn to the ‘ignorant clods’ like Hanson and Palmer based purely on their polarising empty rhetoric.

I long for a time when Australian’s will rise up and toss most of this ‘dead wood’ occupying our parliaments onto the fire, where it belongs. The current crop of politicians on both sides today are pale cardboard cut-outs of their predecessors. They lack imagination, foresight, insight and wit. They are dry, stale, pale, white people of privilege, men and women, the same old faces day after day and week after week. It’s one of the main reasons now why I wake up very early, consume all the international news by 7am and revert to listening my playlist music all day.

No, there will be no real change in this nation until we rise from our slumber and disable the daily grind of the parasitic twins.