Australian Politics and Who to Blame For It in 2013.
Many Australians have developed the practice of criticizing, or blaming the government to an art form. Those critical disparaging skills, so essential in order to be a real armchair critic, have been honed to perfection over recent years.
To be fair to the average amateur critic, there has been plenty of good case study material out there to make use of over the past couple of years.
We have seen multiple policy changes, where it appears the Government is being swept around like a leaf in a storm. And incessant policy vacuums where industry and foreign policy seem to be all but forgotten.
There has been much evidence of a weak, impotent Government being unable to create, or execute sound policy.
And so the finger-pointing and grand standing has, perhaps with some expectation, scaled new and lofty heights.
The obvious reality is however, that either side of the political divide could do a reasonable job of managing the Australian economy, environment and security.
The unfortunate thing is that we have watched what is essentially a puppet Government gyrate this way and that at the behest of the multiple fringe elements that keep it in power. Each one demanding its own wish list of idealistic and sometimes populist policies, or else!
The very fabric of what should be a coherent, stable, accountable Government is being ripped apart by ravenous wolves who seek only to implement their own ideologies without very much real interest in the nation as a whole.
And all the while, serious and critically time sensitive decisions remain in the quagmire of a paralyzed system.
Surely the question must be asked: how did this parlous situation come to pass? Who should we blame?
It is beyond mention that these problems are not the fault of the Government of the day, despite all the posturing and finger-pointing of the critics, including the opposition.
Yes, you heard me, not the fault of the Government. 
Australia, like any successful nation, cannot be expected to survive and prosper without sound, strong Government. Despite the ramblings of the political commentariat, a minority Government that hangs daily by a thread, by the whims of a gaggle of independent and minor parties, cannot be expected to govern effectively.
Is this the fault of the Government? I think not!
Perhaps the fault of the opposition, or even those independents whose votes depend on getting their own sweet policies up? No, I don’t think so.
This problem is not someone else’s problem. It was not caused by the other party, or those handful of voters who elected the minor parties.
It was caused by You and I. Us.
People always deserve the Government they vote for. Always.
In contemporary Australia, we, the electorate, created this situation, and are accountable. It is time we stopped finger-pointing or demanding the head of this Minister, or that Minister, or the Prime Minister for that matter. We created this situation all by ourselves, and we rightly deserve the outcomes.
It is time we faced up to the facts that we got it wrong!
It is to be hoped that 2012 will see the circumstances arise where we have the opportunity to appoint a Government again. And let’s not straight way get hung up over which colour flag that Government should fly.
The critical thing is that a Government is elected with a clear, strong and workable majority that allows it to govern without the incessant interference and meddling of fringe elements.
Both Labour and Liberal parties have the potential, the ability, to get on with running the country as it should be run.
Let’s hope that this opportunity arises, and that we, the very ones who created this mess, get it right. Clearly.
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Author Neil Findlay
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