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Ken Phillips's avatar

John. If only this could be achieved. But OMG, the background stories about some pollies can be hair-raising. Fortunately the vast majority of pollies Ive dealt with over many years are level headed, 'normal' people but the political environment produces strange behaviour with, too frequently the 'scary' characters often holding sway. But we have to deal with the pieces that are on the chess board and the players who are playing. There's little pick and choosing just dealing with the vagaries of the human character

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Terrence O’Brien's avatar

The number of idiotic policy errors that have been born from deals buying off ‘independent’ senators would fill a book. As individuals, they tend to be ideological, but analytically unmoored from any relevant intellectual discipline or life experience. And they are cheap to buy off.

Voters never learn, and each crop of independents is soon replaced by the next.

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