The teeth of common sense need to be bared

I've argued Australians aren't so dumb that we have to suffer a drop in living standards before we realise inherited luck eventually runs out. We know deep down we have to create our own luck to stay in the economic game to prosper within a increasingly competitive world.

But after two years of peddling my story and as we approach the 2013 federal election I think I may be wrong and my overseas friends may be right. I'm amazed at the number of people I meet around the country who profoundly believe we cannot change the structure of our parliamentary democracy. Australians love playing the victim – it's always someone else's fault.

I constantly say Australians created our federal parliamentary structure so Australians can change it. What's the point of education if we don't learn and make change for the better? Democracy began in Greece. The Greeks didn't change and look where Greece is today. No western democracy is delivering fantastic outcomes in the world today – can't Australians see that?

In Australia we have an opportunity to improve the system rather than be victims of the system. The overall vacuous debate in this election has not once touched upon structural change of our parliamentary democracy.

Does that mean all sides of politics think it's working well? Or don't they care? I care and so should you.

Where are the agents of change within our Parliament? I see agents of self-interest but very few agents of change, particularly agents of structural change.

Using LCM - Logic, Common Sense and Maturity – imagine if in our wedding vows we had the words "Do you promise to find fault in all utterances of your partner and laugh at their every stumble and rub salt into every wound."

It doesn't make sense – how the hell would a marriage work and a family grow and prosper under those conditions – yet that's how we run our Federal Parliament.

Imagine if every public company had two boards with the second board instructed to publicly dispute, ridicule, undermine and character assassinate the first board at every opportunity for the sake of the company. It doesn't make sense – yet this is how we run our Federal Parliament.

Imagine if every teacher encouraged every student to talk over, interject, spuriously oppose and belittle other students for the sake of free speech in education. It doesn't make sense – yet this is how we run our Federal Parliament.

It's time to dig up the coffin of Logic, Common Sense and Maturity that has somehow got buried over the years and let LCM sink it's teeth into the neck of voting Australians.

It's time to wake up. You've been glamoured.