Any lingering pretence that our politicians serve the people and not themselves has surely been put to rest this week.
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The words of former NSW Premier Jack Lang – “In the race of life, always back self-interest – at least you know it’s trying” – have never been more prophetic.
The party that was so scathing of the dysfunction that Labor showed during the inglorious Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years has now proved itself every bit as inept as its great rival.
Australian politics is locked in a vicious downward spiral of self-interest that shows no sign of stopping.
And it is the people who suffer.
Every minute the government’s MPs spent last week navel gazing was a minute they could have spent supporting rural communities through drought.
Or helping cancer patients get access to better treatment, or creating new jobs for regional centres.
It is often said that a nation gets the government it deserves.
That could not be further from the truth.
The Australian people deserve so, so much better than what we have seen over the past week.
All the best, Ross