We should shortly discover new independent political talent, and delight in pruned dead wood. Let’s respect all the people’s choices. We may discover that falsely vilified old hands become valued allies in a reform-minded legislature.
It’s time to recognise that peace, justice, and prosperity are impossible without major reconstruction of corporate capitalism.
Its defective mechanisms are prone to giant missteps for countries and humanity.
Thinking is limited by profit motive, or irrational partisan empathy for a limited demographic.
Key controllers of the global system are the banking corporations. The reserve banks are their chief facilitators. Surely, allowing profiteers to be in charge of human destiny is absolutely indefensible.
Banks sweep up half of all liquid cash flows in repayments and interest. The profits accelerate wealth imbalance. Should we not question the very nature and legitimacy of capital, interest, and currency?
We’ve been forever brainwashed about ‘free markets’: There is no level playing field for corporations. In striving for monopoly, they lobby and bribe for subsidies and cheap labour. Global capitalism never functioned without slave labour. It is practised internally from Australia to China today.
Human values are incomprehensible to the calculating minds of corporate entities. Example: the gross omission of parenting time from GDP.
Corporations produce toxic side-effects for humans and environments. Governments are constantly flunking the catch-up legislation, and mopping up the consequences at massive expense.
Such heresies are excluded from debate by luminaries on the ABC [because of] fear, and are censored on commercial mass media. No corporation will hold a hose for the public good.
The first imperative for a community-owned government is to limit corporate size and financial muscle over media and governments.
The latter must be fully democratised. That means independents’ powers must be legislatively ranked above political parties, whilst the latter remain opaquely undemocratic.
A critical, proven reform, under all options for enhanced representation, is multiple representatives per electorate.
Press freedom and integrity measures are equally essential.
The compassion-enabled higher intelligence of new Independents, will hatch new possibilities for humanity. Watch for older members who climb aboard.
Big things start with small steps.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
