Luke will put a Hamptser in the microwave in star wars seven. Censors to go crazy!

The first car on Mars. The martians get the first glimpse of earth's dominant life form! Watch out, the whole place will look like LA in 10 years tops.

They'll save the swapping around leaders for just before the election. No point in giving the media any time to pick apart Turnbull or Bishop or Hockey. We've already got the creepily unlikable abbot to focus our dislike on and they'll give us someone fresh for the election.

I'm from the States and have lived in Australia for about ten years. It seems to me that in Australia the parties have more influence than the sum of the personalities that make them up. In some ways this is good, small parties like the greens end up with a deciding vote and get a bit of bargaining power that would be impossible in the USA. On the other end Australia really only seems to roast the party leader.

So this is what you get, a whole lot of closed meetings and politicians making big decisions without any coarse for public retribution. The parties here tend to reach consensus and individual politicians rarely take a stand outside of their parties. People are never concerned about how the individual they elected behaves in parliament. The kind of localized electoral scrutiny that derailed sopa/pipa in the states is really difficult to muster in Australia.

We will have to rely on technological means to bypass bad policy. Everything we do online is out in the open for ip trolls to scrutinize and the policy that empowers them is written behind closed doors. But try to enact that policy and the internet will repair itself. All this policy crap is a good warning that we need to move the internet behind closed doors and cover our own asses if we're trying to watch movies and listen to music whose copyright will never expire and no ip troll or parliamentary nitwit will bother to make truly accessible to us.