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System change missing in election policies! : Comments
By Klaas Woldring, published 4/9/2013The states don't exist because Australia's constitutional founders thought that three levels of government were needed to avoid tyranny. They exist because it was the only way to make a nation out of six colonies.
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I have at various times spoken to politicians on the abolition of state governments and amalgamating local governments into a more provincial size, representing geographical areas almost the same as tourism areas like The Pilbara, Tropical North Qld etc.
By doing this the recalcitrance of states on certain issues like Gonski and NDIS would be a thing of the past, by removing one level of government the savings would be immense, maybe give some of the minor parties an entry level to federal politics and start to dismantle the useless same but different 2 party system
In addition the problems faced by different regions would be attended to in a more efficient manner. I doubt many people can understand what it is like to live and work somewhere like Wyndham if you are in Perth or Cooktown if you are in Brisbane.
Mostly the politicians appeared to politely listen but never really had an opinion. The only politician that agreed with me was ( funnily enough ) a state MLA at a local market in Cairns one day and he confided that he had been told by his masters to keep those views to himself. Sadly he was voted out at the following election