No rush!

Australia does not need nor should we rush into a decision to form a new government.

The media keep pushing the delay and whipping up public expectations of who will be the victor. But we should not let the medias need for a 24 hour news cycle with a major outcome every day in time for the nightly news drive the process. The medias inflexible approach to the Labor or Liberal coverage is partly what has put is into this position.

I would much prefer all the players take their time so that we come up with the best result for the Australian people. The independents are doing exactly what they should be doing. I would be far more critical if they had of rapidly jumped into bed with one of the Major parties within a day or two of the election. The Australian people deserve better than that.

The medias need for a simple news story which doesn’t make the journalists have to work to hard is not any way to run our government.

For now there is a caretaker government that will keep the country running, the public service will continue to get paid, the military will not undertake a coup, and the traffic lights will continue to be red - amber or green as we all drive our cars to work or the shops. The schools will even keep teaching our children.

In fact it is more stable today than if we are to have a change of government. If the coalition does form a government we then have a handover to the new cabinet and that is a far more tumultuous time than now. Even during the election cabinet members had to manage their departments and run a campaign, not so now. Actually they can dedicate all their energy into running the bureaucracy as they do not even have to worry about the next parliament sitting.

If anything now is a very stable time for the country, not so much for the major parties. And that is what they are actually concerned about, their own political survival.

Just another example of why the independent members deserve the time to make up their minds in a way that works best for the Australian people.

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