Week 5 Task

This last task was a real turn around point for our group, we again we didn't really focus on the task at hand, but instead tried to really understand what the assignment required and basically tried to focus on the first task we would need to accomplish to be able to work on the rest of the assignment. The problem. I guess our main issue with developing a problem is that a lot of things we had heard from other groups were quite far fetched like alien invasions etc, and we didn't really feel that was appropriate, we wanted to adapt something more real life and plausible.

We explored sections of distribution and then came across the distribution of power in Australia. We then realized that power in this democracy is restricted to one party. We can only choose one party which has the most policies we agree with and then we are stuck with the rest, and the acting party is free to change their minds and go against the public with little refute.

Our main idea was to cut the head off, (the prime minister) and split the competing parties up not by a party as a whole but by section. e.g. transport, environment etc etc. Then we would have different environmental teams competing against each other voicing their main policies on each topic.

The base idea was there, but our tutor pointed out many flaws in our idea, and so we went back to polish them up and re-present our tutor with our more refined theories.

Our new idea was heavily based on our old one, except we took it a step further, instead of having parties we changed it to panels of experts competing for their best solution within their field, to make this possible, each section (e.g. transport, environment) are give a set budget on which they must comply and provide future policies and changes. They then voice these policies to the public. The public can then choose the policies from each field to elect a parliament which is catered to each particular state. (we dissolved national parliament) The winner from each division (e.g. transport, environment) then becomes a member of state parliament. The members of each team then elect a team representative to voice their ideas and opinions. The parliament leaders of each state then elect a state representative to represent their state (much like the position of Anna Bligh currently has) the state representatives from each state then elects a national representative to act as a figurehead for the nation (please note that representatives do not have any higher power than their original team members) This also allows national problems to be able to be discussed by their particular field experts, and reduces the need for mass travel on a daily basis. It also prevents higher popularity states from taking control and governing the whole country and each state can do what is in its own best interest.

The diagram below shows our brainstorming and coming up with our base idea.