I agree, all started with Howard; lack of transparency & fooling Australian people for political gain/winning elections or taking orders from overseas masters not necessarily for the good of the Australia people , ...
the children overboard lie,
the Iraq war lies,
...
We have good fundamentals, in-part based on trust, but we have let politicians abuse it, by letting gutter issues lead us to what we expect of the paliment ...
I mean, are we over the issue that there are 256 genders or 256.34 yet? Us, the Australian people, focussing to enshrine this to the 3rd decimal place in the constitution took up 99% of the parliament time, so PMs like Morrison and Abbott could getaway with that kind of "performance" ... or is it spelt pee-formance?
