New Liberals

So the Canadians have changed their political landscape. We need a game changer here in OZ.

The best way for an enterprising Australian political entrepreneur to engineer a game changer - would be to start a "New Liberal" party and to get a few high profile Australians - from a range of cultural areas to stand up and support it.

Bag the ideology and the baggage and the BS - emphasise "middle of the road" and "middle class" and support that with a few well known moderate faces from business, sport and the community - with 150 capable candidates and you will have it in the bag.

Only a few simple criteria.

Make sure you do it closer to the next election - so there is less of an opportunity for anyone to ask the hard policy questions. We wouldn't want the candidates to be confused by too many questions.

Ensure your candidates have an opinion and an idea and know how to express them - we don't want shrinking violets. But also make sure they understand that the game is to win. They can't offend anyone.

If you could find 150 capable candidates who could walk and talk the party line and be seen as strong and moderate then you could easily blow the Liberal and Labor parties into the weeds. Your success would probably only last for one election - and one parliamentary term but who cares. It would be a game changer.

The right time to set it up is now - because our media is so broken that there is no possibility that they could worry you with any of the hard questions. And the *new paradigm* social media hasn't quite matured enough to replace them yet.

And the people of the nation are crying out for change. New blood, fresh ideas, capable leadership, quality candidates and a moderate political party would cream it.

Oh wait - isn't that what Robert Menzies started back in 1945. I wonder what went wrong with that?