For sure - Australian politics at all levels has long been deeply corrupted by the mining & real estate industries. In that respect we're probably not very diff

For sure - Australian politics at all levels has long been deeply corrupted by the mining & real estate industries. In that respect we're probably not very different from many other semi-democracies. Though the Australian voting population is notably easy to scare, and tends to be unthinkingly obedient to authority (larrikins, my arse).