In response to the current leaked texts fiasco, Coalition politicians are dismissing it as a media beat up, that everyone sends nasty texts after a bad day, it’s normal to disagree sometimes. What rot! There is nothing normal about the whole business and it underlines just what a toxic workplace culture exists in our parliaments. Blowing off steam to a partner or close friend might be one thing – nasty name-calling in print sent to people who live by leaking to the media is not how any management team should behave. So why do our politicians do all this? Because their staffers and media advisers think it’s a good idea? The marketing approach is delivering increasingly worse results in terms of personnel and outcomes. Politicians can’t be experts at everything but they could listen to people who are. How about we leave the hairdressing to hairdressers, get rid of the personal photographer and image consultants, and get some policy experts onboard instead.

Source: How to fix politics – get rid of political staffers and media advisers and hire some policy experts – » The Australian Independent Media Network