At present the Prime Minister enjoys unprecedented power of the House and the Senate. He does this not just through party membership, but by enforcing party discipline through the carrot and stick relationship all members of the Liberal have with their leaders power over patronage.
(Members of the Labor party have a similar relationship with the party through caucus and their faction, but not with the leader as such).
I want to see the Senate freed from the Prime Ministers patronage.
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cam : If we are to keep a Parliamentary system: then the Senate must become purely legislative. I would support the prohibition of Senators being in the Executive as a constitutional amendment.
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