Letter

In response to Richo’s grave should be extra deep

The political class can't be trusted to implement democratic policy agendas

https://ohnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/richos-grave-should-be-extra-deep/

To extend this analysis a bit further, one question is whether the Labor-Coalition political class and its right-wing offcuts are close to permanent and irrevocable disconnection from anything resembling “representative democracy”, and where that will lead.

It is increasingly apparent that broad sectors of Australian society increasingly understand that the political class at federal-state levels cannot be trusted to implement basic democratic policy agendas, because their “small target” commitments guarantee that they can pursue policies and expenditure of public funds however they like.

Those expenditures serve the interests of a small group of Australians, increase socio-economic inequality, strengthen industrial stagnation and irrelevance, and plough money into the Trump administration.

— Peter Henning from Melbourne