Partisan politicking more about being in power than finding solutions.
Party hacks and apparatchiks increasingly given preference for preselection.
Head office guys picking loyalists to party lines.
Important issues not debated at all.
Party machine.
Backroom deals private hearings in remote locations taking of evidence only from witnesses sympathetic to a particular outcome.
Public servants making politically-based assertions more suitably made by staffers for politicians
Cunningly manipulated decision-making processes
Supporters on the ground feeling they’re being sold out.
Back-pedalling.
Treating the community with contempt and using genuine local and regional patriots as fodder in big-picture campaigns.
Apparatchiks trashing community relationships. They ride roughshod over the community.
Apparatchiks sitting down with hardheads in the government and playing a giant game of chess.
Public consultation is a sham while deals are cut by the big boys.
Below-the-radar deals trading support.
Draconian legislation providing no appeal rights and no parliamentary review giving a minister virtually unfettered powers and providing fertile opportunities for silent partnerships with government to develop.
Appeal rights natural justice procedural fairness denied.
Powerful single-issue interest groups intent on removing rights.
Repaying political debts.
