The Wire

It’s not surprising voters are disenchanted with politics given the long drawn out election we’ve just been through. Geoff Gallop was a politician for 20 years and , premier of Wester Australia for six of those years. He believes it’s time for an overhaul of the Australian political system, including the appointment to Cabinet of people outside the political system, and the use of deliberative assemblies. He outlined his ideas at the 2010 Annual Hawke lecture in Adelaide last night