Internal factions that dominate decision-making in Australia’s major political parties are a “cancer” on the country’s democratic system, according to United Australia Party (UAP) leader Craig Kelly MP. In a wide-ranging interview with Emeritus Law Professor David Flint, Kelly, who last year resigned from the Liberal Party to join the UAP, said Australian politics was in “disarray” and that the current two-party political system was “broken.” “If you were to have a clean piece of paper on how to draw up a political system—it’d be pretty hard to go past the Westminster system, it’s as good as it gets,” he told Flint in an episode of Australia Calling. “But the problem we’ve got is we’re dominated by two political parties that have been able to almost create a duopoly between themselves, and both parties are heavily factionalised, so whoever is going to get started has to almost sign a blood …