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Why must Australia forever lag behind the rest of the world? I read that Stephen Colbert had flagged the possibility of a presidential run and I thought, great, once again America leads the way and we Down Under are left looking like a bunch of bloody amateurs.
The US already has a TV star president, probably the first of many, but in this cultural backwater we seem further than ever from electing a small-screen hero to the highest office in the land. The nearest thing we have is Senator Derryn Hinch, and I think we can all agree, as we have for the last four decades, that Hinch is not the answer to anything.
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Why are our options so restricted? Why are we currently forced to choose between Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten, neither of whom has ever so much as fronted a prime-time current affairs show or starred in a Logie-nominated soap opera? When will our political parties show the daring, the nerve, the basic GUTS, to place television stars in leadership positions?
It's 2017 and neither Labor nor the Liberal party has yet preselected a Bachelor contestant in a winnable seat in state or federal elections. Even the Greens, so often in the vanguard of change, are curiously reluctant to allocate the higher positions on their Senate tickets to anyone off The Voice – contestants OR judges. We can't go on like this.
Matthew Johnson, aka Matty J, for PM. Photo: Network Ten
The Australian people deserve strong, decisive, glamorous leadership. What's stopping us? Let's not maintain the pretence that government would somehow become "worse" under Prime Minister Manu Feildel or Attorney-General Daryl Somers.
And there's a definite chance it could be better. At the very least it would be more attractive. And in this day and age, isn't a government with perfectly styled hair and designer clothes the best we can hope for?