Kill (or help kill) people who are on average more poor and brown than we are.

Maintain global dominance by attracting and keeping STEM workers

Preferential voting. Compulsory voting.

Corruption, and running enterprises into the ground with. Our countries official power utility, our postal service, our railways, our police as examples. You know , the stuff we kind of need as citizens. Edit: Our taxation is world class though.

Superannuation

Minimum 10% compulsory

Military stuff

Jesus, Lemmy, this should be a positive thread not just an opportunity to complain

My county government office is a well oiled machine. Paying for taxes like car tags and property is a no-brainer, in person or online. Last time I got a new driver's license I was in and out, 10 minutes flat, including the walk to and from my truck. Prices for all of the above are plenty fair.

Abandoning public services and privatizing them :(

Many things. For example, every single president during my lifetime has been almost universally liked by everyone in the country - kind of like a lifetime of Obamas.

A more recent example of something they do well is when I started my business. I received nearly 10 hours of one-on-one personal guidance on how to do it, completely free. They’re also paying me around 600 euros a month for a year to help me get started.

Naval aviation.

Corruption

Welfare for giant corporations

Protect rich people at all costs

Australia is super good at dryland cropping, growing wheat where there's fuck all water.

Also, digging up red soil and flogging it to China at a rate that you can almost feel the earth's axis shifting.

The ADA.

Fucking the working class.

Destroying public services.

They handled the pandemic well with regards to small businesses

50% of your normal monthly income, free, no questions asked. That was great lol, sat on my arse for six months

Also, 1% of my taxes get put into a training fund that I can spend on any kind of training I want. Doesn't have to be relevant to my business at all

Incarcerate citizens.

Outsource.

Parks and interstate freeways

Pulling shit out of the ground and inflating a housing bubble.

Oppress mosquitos

Steal, corrupt, kill, erase, and destroy. Thats about all the country im ashamed to be a citizen of does

Syrup. Affable. Eh?

Bomb oppressed peoples.

The country: promise the opportunity of a better life

The govt: Be corrupt

To find new ways to obstruct the lives of the everyday citizens, while letting both local and international monetary elites to do what they want.

Kill

Serve the military Political kidnaps and assassinations their own citizens and journalists

Many things, but not all of them good. Still, some are good.

Taxes. They have an incredible talent to raise new taxes.

And, more seriously, like already mentioned in another comment: destroying public services. which is a real sad thing to see happening, if you ask me.

Shoot itself in the dick

Making new enemies.

Destroy the country.