Notes during Week 6

Problems:

• ·         Values: Politicians are heavily influenced by their own personal values and ideology. Unfortunately this follows an outdated, socially conservative system.
  Solution: Remedied if politicians’ viewpoint was more contemporary: aware of and understands climate change and sustainability, tolerant of cultural divesity and same sex marriage, untiedto unions or the church, secularist.

• ·         Accessibility (Relationships): There is a disconnection between the everyday person and parliamentary officials. This could be due to not understanding political jargon, not being told the correct information, not being able to communicate (directly or indirectly)with government – the average person does not have a say. What if a citizen had a good idea? How can we enable them to share it with the leaders of our country? How can we make them listen?
  Solution: Removing social boundaries, physical boundaries (creating an inlet for public knowledge, public opinion); creating a media network in which political proceedings can be better understood by the public, that explains how a person may be affected by changes

• ·         Power: the distribution of power is too singular, whereby an individual (Prime Minister) has the final say. The splitting of government into two major parties means that the members of those parties have loyalty to agree with the proposals of fellow party members, and the party with themajority of seats has the majority of votes
  Solution: highest power is a council in which every member has equal say. There are not two parties, and each member does not have a loyalty to another member. The public votes not for an entire party but for individual members