A man can dream... yes, I agree it’s hard to see how the House of Lords could be fixed in a way that takes it back to closer to what it was, but is it impossible? I thought Brexit was impossible - never thought that would happen. So I can dream a little more.
I certainly also agree that the House of Lords is somewhat broken at the moment, but the idea of abandoning something that worked well for centuries just because it’s had a couple of bad decades recently without at least trying to fix it, doesn’t sit well with me.
As for the Australian Senate, I actually do expect that to be sorted out, although it may take a little while - at the moment, the Labor opposition is certainly willing to take advantage of what has happened there to block government legislation, but longer term, both the Coalition and Labor know that something needs to be done to fix things so microparties can’t so easily get Senate seats, and I think even the Greens would come on board with that. What has happened at the moment, is somebody found a flaw within the system that they exploited (and were able to exploit because of better technology), and we’ve already started fixing things - if the most recent Senate election had been the normal half Senate election, rather than a full one triggered by a double dissolution, we’d be even further along. I think the minor party senators will also come to realise over time that the people will not tolerate a government’s mandates being blocked.
Glad to hear it.