Hi,
During Howard's reign we've seen a number of retrograde steps taking us away from the relatively open, free and fair political system that existed previously. I'm no expert but among the disturbing changes are:
- Less time between the calling of an election and the closing of the electoral roll
- Increase of the ceiling for undeclared political donations
- Reduction of the time/questions allowed for non-government senators
- Restructuring of the Senate Committee system to make it friendlier to the government, effectively weakening the process of legislative review
Most people I know are completely unaware of these changes, but I'll certainly be voting for people or parties whose policy is to undo them. I don't know what the labor party's position is on this, but I'd really like to know.
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