Lobbying & All Its Faults.

A recent emailed newsletter from Guardian Australia, on the ongoing subject of lobbying and the failure of our governments to address this issue, is a reminder. Lobbying is incestuous only because political parties support it's function in parliamentary terms. It has never been necessary, even essential, in any parliament in the world,yet it is allowed, because it is a means of promulgation of what can best be described as legal corruption.

It is a method used to channel/ funnel funds to political parties in disguise, allowing vested interests to foster their individual and often deceitful needs. Lobbying in Australia is now rampant.

The fact that our government has decided to reinstate PwC International as a possible contractor on matters of auditing and or advising departments, over the departmental bureaucracy ie. public servants, is just another form of lobbying. The fact that PwC enabled senior personel to cheat our ATO, costing the nation millions of dollars and, as yet, no individual has been penalised. The use of "so-called" consulting services, when ostensibly our employed Public servants in relevant departments are, or should be able to perform the requisite function, with aplomb, seems to be a challenge that the two- party system can not resist.

Successive Governments have, under the guise of supposed efficiency, squandered huge amounts of money pandering to their friends in various professions, all to no avail.

With a Parliament of independent members, not politicians, the currently accepted need for lobbying would definitely end, saving the nation millions, if not billions of dollars. Let's get rid of the parasites, become a member of- www.movementforbettergovernment.com.au