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The senate is where governments need control to govern : Comments
By Peter Baume, published 11/11/2013When I was Whip in the Senate, the Leader of the day told me that the only essential bills were the Budget Bills and the Supply Bills and that anything else was 'cream'.
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Despite the election result, the potential for unnecessary political instability remains high, mainly because our Constitution is unstable. It allows those who lost the last election to have those who won removed from office, if the former have a Senate majority.
If the Liberals faces this scenario, maybe it will finally dawn on them that the Advancing Democracy model for a republic is worth adopting - www.advancingdemocracy.info.