Maybe #Straya need to regime change the #USA and install a real democracy?

#PreferentialVoting aka #RankedChoiceBallots

#Voting on a Saturday, with a polling place within walking distance for most people, easy to #vote in advance, and not too tricky to vote by post

and an independent federal body to draw electorate (district) boundaries, run polling places, and run the counting - like our #AEC https://www.aec.gov.au/

The Yanks can skip the #CompulsoryVoting if they insist. But it is good for calming politics no need for the "bring out the vote" intensity with "or the opposition will eat your kids" madness. And it makes some fraud even harder to do - like voter impersonation or dead people voting - if everybody votes in every election.

#Australian #democracy is not perfect, but i think we're probably close to the "least-broken"?

Our worst problem is #mining company influence, to parties and the public
🎶you're gonna get whacked, by the mining tax🎶

The expanding #Green and #Teal #CrossBench is providing some push back on the #mining lobby's environmental bullshit.

But we're still getting ripped off, if the government says we "can't afford" something, they're lying. We have an entire continent full of almost every mineral the world wants to buy, we just need to #tax it properly or nationalise it, not let a few individuals hoard all the profits.

But if we went full محمد مصدق or #Gough #Whitlam … then our friends the USA might decide we'd picked the wrong government and change it for us?

I don't necessarily want to change their government, I want to change how they elect it.

a #TwoPartyState is not really any better than a #OnePartyState

cc other mes @kirt @kirt @kirt

#AUKUS #Teals #GoughWhitlam #ClivePalmer #GinaReinheart #GinaRinehart #GautamAdani
#محمدمصدق

Gough Island: Worker sought for one of world's remotest places

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65254130

A British wildlife group is looking for someone to work on one of the remotest islands in the world for 13 months.

#Gough Island is around 1,500 miles from the #African mainland - and, with no airport, reaching Gough involves a seven-day boat ride from South Africa.

There are seven full-time employees - and eight million #birds - who call Gough home.

@Resister in the ancient times I worked at 100 William St, Sydney. The building is 300m from the coke sign. In that building at the same time worked one of life's gentlemen, #Gough Whitlam.

Frequently we'd be on the same lift coming up from parking for him and the street for me. Whenever that occurred I would say good #morning Mr #Whitlam and he never called me anything but "comrade".