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I'm wanting to see more well-rounded policy that can be supported by the major parties regardless of 'who floated it', hoping for better enduring government rather than this 'rip and replace' bullshit.

Obviously with the right wong think tanks invading, this is nothing more than a thought exercise, but i reckon its worth exploring.

My heretical angle is significantly reducing thenterms that parties have in power - not extending to 4 years but instead reducing to 1 or 18 months. The thinking being: If you cant get anything done because the only work one is interested in doing is ideological nonsense that caters to a narrow part of society maybe it shouldn't get off the ground in the first place?

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think you can do either though. You have no control over what facebook or xitter does. Also you could ban donations but you can't ban independent expenditures or promises of high paying jobs after the stint is over.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We could do what other countries do, and have a stand down time after leaving parliament before allowing ex-ministers to go into the lobbying sector. Even the US does this....no idea why we don't.

We absolutely can require that FB/twitter et al, either vacate the country or comply with out laws.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They would vacate. We are too small of a country for them to care about.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't and I bet most other people don't either.

Maybe we can invite competition. Let's get the Chinese and the Russians in here.