Is there more to politics than politics? What about sincere belief? Or conviction?<br/>Both are missing in action, trumped by political expedience.<br/>We've just sat through an election campaign in which the major parties fought a pitched battle over precious little, two bitterly adversarial political organisations scrambling desperately for the middle ground, aiming for the broadest common denominator.<br/>But the problem is bigger than just this election. We are living through a moment in which the pursuit of power seems the sole objective of political activity. True for Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott.<br/>Shouldn't someone hold them to account? Our political media perhaps? Why does it just report politics as show business?<br/>The sum of it leaves the rest of us short - changed.<br/>In The Year My Politics Broke, Jonathan Green looks at where politics, truth and disconnection collide.