Pollies: (These are blunt ideas, and could use minor tweaking.)

*Grandiose Plan fails – permanently lose 25 to 100 % of pension.  (e.g. SA State Bank Sale, Robo Debt-How many politicians and/or High Level Public Servants were ‘fined’, or had their job benefits altered as a result of these major ‘stuff-ups’?  Especially when it appears some Lower Level Public Servants apparently tried to prevent such plans on legal grounds.   I think none.)

 *10 year politicians enter a lottery.  Winners (up to 10) are told Sunday night, ‘For the next 28 days, your pay will be equivalent to the ‘dole’’ and you lose Parliamentary ‘perks’.  They cannot get subsidised Parliamentary meals or travel (including free vehicles).  They can have meals cooked in the Parliamentary kitchens, but, only ingredients that are purchased using the ‘dole’ can be used.  They can ‘pool’ monies to bulk buy ingredients.

*Alternatively, politicians exist for three months without ‘perks’, on an irregular basis.  (All or some?)

Not in any order 

1)     Will politicians offer to take a permanent drop of up to twenty-five percent of their pension if any plans they put forward that involve massive - twenty-five million dollars - expenditure of public monies, are later proven to be just as massive 'stuff-ups'?  Subsequent 'offences' add to the percentage.  Twenty-five million is just an arbitrary figure, I am just as happy to lower it.  Any monies recouped are to go towards remediation, and not into general revenue and possibly not audited only by Government auditors.

If included in the group creating the problem is a retired politician who has become a lobbyist, could they be exposed to the same penalty?

 

 

2)     What is the possibility that at the next election that the total vote for the two major parties combined totals less than forty percent because people are fed up with the shenanigans of both parties?  This means that leaves up to possibly sixty percent individual Independents.  Good luck getting consensus.  Oh to be a fly on the wall if this happens - politics might again have some relevance.