Although, if you're an Australian like I am, you must know that this is all going to get worse.
I'm sick of our Government (no matter who seems to be in power at the time) taking every single page out of the American playbook. I like our country, why do we have to try and be them? :(
The playbook Australia is taking a page out of is a very old one indeed.
Fuck my state. Who's idea was it to give a populist idiot (Newman) a super-majority?
(I agree with you, for what it's worth, but there is definitely a not-so-subtle undercurrent in politics of "We should do what America does")