Over
thirty percent of people wanted a minor party or independent. New Whig
has a single experience of standing for election in a State Parliament
and is passionate about the rights of independents at elections. Bogus
parties are a problem, but the answer is not to make it harder to form a
legitimate party.
On another topic: another reason to support
Australia remaining a monarchy is that it is actually the most
egalitarian and democratic of systems. We are all equally subjects
of a single person which equalises everyone in a way that otherwise
cannot be imagined within any form of human, hierarchical society. As
long as there are pay scales, as long as professions are ranked and as
long as some dwelling places are more desirable than others, there will
be a social hierarchy. In our Monarchy, there is a clearly defined and
eternal pinnacle, and no matter how wealthy someone is or how persuasive
they become through media ownership they cannot buy absolute power and
control of the Armed Forces, A hereditary Monarch does not set the
pattern for advantage of birth, but is the exception that proves the
rule in that by contrast society can ensure everyone has the best
opportunities in life irrespective of birth. In the days when Monarchs
married each other's families, there was an argument of class that is
now in the past as young heirs marry "commoners" including Japan and
many in Europe. The system under which we live developed and grew over
the last eight hundred years, though a lot of wars and revolutions.
Because Australia is such a young country, we don't have a sense of
history and think the political and social system we enjoy just happened
to exist and can be easily changed or replaced, but they come with
complexity and inertia; it is wrong to view and portray our Monarchy as
the feudal system known from fairy stories and ballets or the system
that existed before the Enlightenment and before the British Civil War
and Glorious Revolution, where the Monarchs still had absolute power and
a raft of other social inequalities were bound up with them.
The
2013 federal election saw a swing away from the major parties and some
politically minded people disliked the fact that a large number of…
