If you were the dictator of Australia, what would you do?
Oh geez, where to begin...
The absolute first thing would be to amend the marriage act to allow gay marriage. I can't believe that we still can't get that happening and have been beaten to it by the USA and the IRISH!! THE IRISH BEAT AUSTRALIA TO LEGALISING GAY MARRIAGE! The whole bloody country is more religious than the vatican and still managed to do it.
I would also end the tax deductibilty of churches. If people want to have their beliefs then that's fine, I wouldn't have a problem with that. But automatic tax exemption for churches is ridiculous. If churches do charitable work that meets the legal definition of charity (which i would probably change aswell) that would apply to actual charities then that's fine and that part of it would get the same exemptions as any other charity.
Australia is overgoverned. A country of about 23million or so have a national government, then below that you have 6 states and a couple territories, then below that you have local councils. In whatever form my heirarchy would take it would be alot more streamlined.
There's stacks of Australia I love, our healthcare, our education system etc. Not to say there wouldn't be improvements made, I'd add dental into the Medicare system etc but on those things it would be business as usual.
I would have to take the advice of some economics experts. But I've always thought a system where citizens could opt in and have the government pay off consumer debt (credit cards, personal loans etc) and have the people pay it back through the tax system over a period of time (indexed, but no interest) on legal condition that the citizen not take out consumer debt again. I suspect this would create a better economy at negligible cost to the fiscal bottom line.
And so on, but might leave it there as I could do a whole post on defence, trade, economic, social policy etc.