The problem is getting the actual electorate to vote for these alternatives, (to the major parties MB) the problem isn't that people with different ideas can't get their name on the ballot.
But that's democracy, the electorate knows the old parties are corrupt and self-serving, they are entitled to vote for that if they want, surely?
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With enough ads, they can be convinced to vote for liars, cheats and cowards or even uranium mining. What's good for business is good for the (classless) country. Right? That's bourgeois democracy. You get what you pay for and the parties with the most money coming in are the ones taken the most seriously by the capitalists, the workers (dreaming of becoming capitalists or winning the lotto) and, importantly, the capitalist & State media. The voice/image of the major parties and their selected candidates are cash-amplified and the voting public listens--even in Australia.
Anyone can set up a business or a political party, just ask a member of the Libertarian Party or even a Green. In fact, a successful political party tends to be a business which supports business and in turn, successful businesses, corporations and landlords support major political parties. The ruling class supports the major political parties. It's in their class interests to do so. It is in their class interests to control the State. The overwhelming majority of the electorate are treated and act as consumers of the commodified political process. But consumers no more control the political process in a bourgeois democracy than wage-slaves control the process of commodity production under capitalism. After all, if there is a ruling class, there is a ruled class--even in Australia. ;P
Regards, Mike B)
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