If any of what you just said was true in practice, Australia would be a gleaming example of how democracies with strong civil society organisations can be run.

If any of what you just said was true in practice, Australia would be a gleaming example of how democracies with strong civil society organisations can be run. Instead, Australia is best described as pigs at the slops trough. A nation that seems to only want to vote for leaders who have a public humiliation kink.