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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Can't agree with that  Well over half of the electorate didn't vote for the Liberal or National party, so the two of them combined don't have a mandate to legislate at their whim, just rather they simply have enough seats together to form a government, the parliament as a whole now legislates on the basis of weighing up competing ideas and concerns given they were all elected by portions of Australia. So, a petition may well be a useful component of that no matter how small by affecting minor parties for example.
The Labor party was elected on a clear platform to introduce a price on carbon after the 2007 and even the 2010 election too but the Coalition (and Greens) continually blocked its proposed legislation and then with the help of the conservative media the coalition successfully ran a massive overblown baseless scare campaign on what became known as the Carbon Tax, a cost of living neutral arangement. The saddest thing is this campaign has resulted in many people doubting even the need for what is probably much more important legislation by telling them BS and rubbing shoulders with rubbish science for their own political gain.
So petition away, no matter how futile it may seem 
Mike |
Actually that is bollocks. Labour only got 43.4 percent of the vote and the libs got 36.7 percent of the primary vote. No one has had a mandate under your terms of logic here. The declaration if a mandate by the libs is equally as valid in both instances.
Australians have been convinced that having a super fast Internet is better than one that is faster than the current one. We don't need to have super fast at home. We need fast. Businesses need super fast but even video conferencing will still be very good at 26mbits. We don't have enough money to go around at present. Our massive debt is testament to that. You have to have a scaled back version of very fast Internet. Cost benefit approach. Not want we want and can't afford approach.