Democracy under threat

Democracy under threat, says Beazley :

"The Government now plans to slash the number of committees and put a government member in charge of each one that remains."

Dearrie, dearrie me, och, dearrie me....The government is having a whale of a time but I have to confess some of our other politicians have really put their thinking caps on and shown that the government may have the numbers but it does not have the control. Some of our other politicians have been very creative in their thinking and approach and they will just have to show the leadership which is currently lacking. We knew once the government had control of the senate what it would do. There are no surprises here. We need to be reminded that Australians voted for this and may not have understood at the time what it would mean. Now they know. They could have listened but they preferred the discovery learning approach. Now they are discovering and it's an enlightening experience. I think it's showing the flexibility and ingenuity of our non government politicians and it demonstrates how many people value what was our democracy. We can't say we weren't told, but now we'll have to see just how good we are at tackling the current challenge.