Explanations needed

More and more we read about serious problems with our system of governance: e.g. federation, the dominant two-party system, proposed power privatisation and lack of democratic representation.

The corruption and sex scandals involving NSW politicians and senior local government administrators, the debilitating fragmentation of governance in our major cities, the hospital dramas, the slow responses to climate change issues are clear symptoms of system failure.

These system debacles need not continue, eg why not move to a proportional representation system which delivers a diverse, representative and multi-party system?

This allows a government to change without an election.

It does away with the grotesque adversarial parliamentary nonsense of the two-party system.

There is an urgent need to launch focussed free internet education to provide a basic understanding of alternatives and how these can be achieved.

A special website to educate the public in an unbiased, non-party political way, funded by an independent organization, may rapidly overcome the public's lack of reliable information.

The room for improvement in Australia's political system is truly immense, but just describing how it works is not enough.

We need explanations for alternatives.

This is unlikely to be initiated by either of the major parties and I invite foundations and philantropists to come forward to organize this.

Klaas Woldring Pearl Beach