The NSW election confirmed the increasing disillusion with major political parties. Their politicians' vision only extends to navel gazing or across the floor of their media gossip plagued parliaments. This is why they are losing to small, focused, groups.
A party doesn't possess a brain. It is up to an individual to ensure something is actually delivered. The chaos in the UK Conservatives and Labor over Brexit illustrates this.
Here, we may think of Liberals as sellers of public assets to multinational mates and Labor as allied to the anarchistic Greens. Nationals have feebly followed Treasury, Trade and the Productivity Commission as they sell-out farming to the supermarket duopoly and one-sided free trade agreements. Their abandonment of the dairy and pork industries has been treasonous.
John Williams will not be remembered as a National Party member, but for his long push for a Banking Royal Commission. Deakin, Theodore, Chifley, McEwen etc, are remembered, not for their party, but for their individual drive for specifics that took Australia forward.
I read an extract from Barnaby Joyce's 2014 Agricultural Competitiveness Green Paper. It referred to the long proposed Urannah Dam near Mackay. It read "Likely to be suitable for further consideration for possible assistance to accelerate feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis or design".
A bureaucrat wrote it. Had such a nest of weasel words reached the desks of either Joh Bjelke Petersen or Neville Wran, the author would have been sacked.
They were men of action like West Australian, John Forrest, who backed CY O'Connor's much ridiculed plan to pipe water 512 kilometres to the Coolgardie goldfields. WA was rewarded with huge wealth creation.
Our federal government is paralysed by analysis. There have been two consultancies on a "very fast train', each costing $20 million - with no action.
Meanwhile the much-derided Chinese build amazing railways and highways over Asia and we refuse to be part of their Belt and Road project, which will open Europe and Africa to Asia.
The average minister has less than two years in office - appointed, briefed and tamed by the department. Without a specific goal, they are a non-event.
The many ministers for defence have left catastrophic decisions behind them as, clueless, they relied on the advice of departmental or consultant crooks and clowns.
The current submarine contract with France is material for a Monty Python farce.
The fifth of six ministers in six years signed for a removal of the efficient nuclear fuelled engines for replacement by outdated conventional models. $50 Billion dollars with delivery of the first submarine of 12 in 15 years' time - utter madness!
Singapore's great Lee Kwan Yu's claim that "Australia is becoming the poor white trash of Asia" is looking accurate.