A representative democracy should be truly that.. representative. Elected politicians should not just represent those in their electorate with and interest in politics (who you’ll probably find have relatively high levels of education and income/wealth).

Scrapping mandatory voting leads to areas of relatively low socio-economic status being neglected. This is because voter turnout in these areas is typically very low and therefore, there are not many votes to be won by campaigning there.. this only exacerbates the downward spiral.

The way to improve the political process is not by excluding those citizens that are uninformed but by informing them. This starts with improving the education system(s) to foster a more active interest in political issues at a younger age so that the next generation of voters are always more informed than the last.

I don’t think enough money is spent on election campaigns. I’d draft legislation that creates an “election stimulus package” that forks unlimited amounts of government money out to political candidates and their parties so they can spend more on brainwashing and propaganda. This would also create demand for jobs such as political journalists at news publications because there’d be more going on to report.

Of course, tax payers would be pissed, but we’ll just launch their taxes sky high into space if they’re brazen enough to commit dissent.

But I think American soft money teaches us another lesson, the folly of too much money in politics. The sum spent on the last presidential election beggars belief. As ridiculous as it sounds, I’d love to import policy from Rugby League and ‘salary cap’ our political parties.