It is inoculate competent people from entering politics by mistake and thereby wasting their potential. “Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate

It is inoculate competent people from entering politics by mistake and thereby wasting their potential. “Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.” — Donald Horne, 1964.