Another example was entering the Iraq War. Neither the Australian people nor the Australian Parliament got any say at all in the matter. The Prime Minister (John Howard at the time) made the decision all on his ownsome.
And in the process he felt completely able to ignore the biggest ever protest marches against the war ever held in Australia. Not a flicker of interest in the voice of huge numbers of the Australian people on the matter.
One man elected but not on the matter of entering the Iraq war in the election campaign.
I think this is depressing. The more it gets documented the more utterly it seems we are subject and disempowered.
Maybe it is worth asking the question: Do we have any power at all to make decisions over our little local lives here in our Kedron Brook valley community? What is left to us under this immense burden of heavy-handed over-governance?