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Sorry, but I don't understand what your proposal really addresses. It seems to limit who can stand for election, and has a jury of people selecting nice guys and gals to stand for election, on the basis of unknown criteria.
So a whole bunch of individuals are elected without any unified goal to work towards - sort of like he government of Iraq.
The main problem with our electoral system requires constitutional amendment.
Currently, there has to be one senator for every two MHRs. This led to relatively stable government when there were 10 senators per State, requiring a quota of 17% of the vote to get elected. When it went to 12 senators per State, the quota dropped to 14.2% making life a lot easier for minor parties to get in.
My thoughts are that Senators should be at one for every three MHRs, and even that is probably too much. The US Senate, on which ours is based, only has two senators per State.
The other problem with your idea is fixed four year terms. Why fixed? And at the moment, Senators have to serve twice as long as MHRs, which means they'd be elected for 8 years. Strikes me as a great reward for those who have been stuffing up our political and fiscal system.
As things currently stand, at least 10% of the population will vote Green no matter how ruinous their financial policies. Fortunately, the Coalition seems to be backing off the electoral reforms to stop people getting elected on minuscule votes, but if they do go ahead with them, they are shooting themselves in the foot - as they will cement the Greens always having the balance of power.
Problem with the Greens, a quasi religious movement, having the balance of power, is that their idea of being a House of Review, is that they happily tick off any spendthrift government's grandiose schemes, and completely block any frugal government's attempt to rein in spending. Result - Greece and Spain - here we come. Government debt in Australia is 30% of GDP and rising fast. Apologist for big spending say that Federal debt is 12% of GDP, but neglect to mention that most countries they compare us to aren't Federations - our States and State Authorities have huge debt.
Regards,
Renato
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