More accountability for all - the government and the independents

Comments on Paul Kelly “Minorities will be held to account”, 25/08/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/commentary/minorities-will-be-held-to-account/story-e6frgd0x-1225909585049
On parliamentary reforms, it would be nice if the election system could be changed to a fixed 3 or 4 year term, with no double dissolution and two houses should sit jointly if the supply cannot be passed in the senate.

As for a deal with the independents or the greens, maybe the best way is to set up a fund for addressing their demands, but the use of that fund should be based on some independent assessments (at least on how to be used), like by the Productivity Commission, or a parliament budget office in conjunction with the PC.

It is a potential danger that a weak minority government with the greens in balance in the senate and a member in the house will be very costly to the taxpayers in terms of too green in government policies. That danger will be greater if ALP forms the government.

There will be, however, some sort of counter balance from the conservative independent MPs.