Perhaps we should take some serious steps to stamp of untoward interference in politics by corporations; particuluarily foreign owned Multinations. IMO our first move could be to ban all forms of political donations because, apart from agressive lobbying, donations are the corporate political weapons of choice.
But I guess the major snag, IMO, is that we have a crop of politicians who believe in following the market which is defacto following big business/multinationals who dominate our markets
And of course the avarage Aussie believes that BHP, RIO, the Big 4 Banks are great Aussie corporations when in fact they are majority foreign owned.
But again, I guess it will take a protracted Recession to motivate the average Aussie to consider who calls our economic shots and as you astutely remarked above, its certainly not our "impressionable" pollies.
