Public Transport

[native pepper]

Funny how there's tens of thousands of clubs and organisations around the country run very successfully by people without being a member of a political party and being told what to do, they seem to run with less problems than our political system and with more intelligence, with much better long term outcomes. Party politicians are programmed to vote for the parties ideological line and direction, independents vote for the best outcome for the future in most cases, but the teals, are just another bunch of useless academics with no clue whatsoever, nor real life experience and no different to the greens.

Then we have the hundreds of thousands of successful small businesses run by ordinary people without academic qualifications, yet very few run by academics, unless we are talking about the closed shop rip off legal system or totally useless and wasteful bureaucratic systems consisting of all academics.

Now the federal government is going to take over Rex airlines if no one else buys it and will probably put a bureaucrat in charge, where we will see a steep down turn in operations and increase in waste and operational expenses.

[T1 Terry]

Doctors, dentists, ophthalmologists, surgeons, psychiatrists, ...... the list goes on, all academics and all running their own small businesses, the difference is, they rarely go belly up, the other less qualified often work for less than wages, especially for the hrs they work, and yet many lose everything no matter how hard the worked.
Most of the professors at universities are self employed, a lot of those in politics were previously self employed, so your theory regarding very few being run by academics doesn't hold true NP.

As far as clubs run by a board of directors, surely you don't consider them to be a committee, small sports clubs and the like are sometimes run by committees, but under the guidance of upper level management under the umbrella of an association to keep them in line, but they all work towards a common goal for that particular club, not all pulling in their own directions with their own agendas. Then you get down to the small charity type shops etc, they are run by committees, each member often pulling in their own direction with their own agendas ..... often quite chaotic, I certainly wouldn't want a country I lived in run using that type of management .....

Unfortunately, where you get more than a few people involved, politics will always come into it. Major parties at least are sort of heading towards a common goal, but members will still "cross the floor" if the feel strongly that what is being put forward is not in the best interests of the people they represent .....

A handful of independents can be a good thing in govt, they often are pulling in their own directions but can sometimes join in a common goal to get something either done, or block it from being done, but a govt full of them .... refer to a previous post

T1 Terry