Demos,
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Chris C,
Good point about introducing proportional representation by bringing back the upper house. But why bother with all the infrastructure and expense of another house of parliament? Why not just change the voting system of the existing house to that of a proportional system? Single Member voting is a system that has well and truly reached its use-by date. There is absolutely no justification for it any more.

http://www.proportional-representation.org

Practically all of Europe and most of the newly liberated democracies of recent years have adopted proportional representation. It increases the interest in politics by most of the citizenry and always keeps the executive on its toes.

SAINTS,

Kevin Rudd was never a minister in the Beattie Government. He was never a minister in the Goss Government either. Nor was he a minister in the Borbidge Government, the one in power when the alleged rape occurred. The only minister he has ever been is the prime minister.

He was chief of staff to Wayne Goss and then director-general of the Cabinet Office when the Cabinet took legal advice that caused the shredding of the Heiner documents, none of which, according to Mr Heiner himself, concerned the alleged rape. The enquiry was into management of the detention centre at which the alleged victim resided, not into any rape.

Rape is a police matter. The resurrection of the almost 20-year old Heiner Affair was an attempt to smear Kevin Rudd in last year’s election

Edward Carson,

I believe having two Houses of Parliament is a safeguard against excessive executive power. You are more likely to have an Upper House re-instated with PR in Queensland than get the Lower House elected by PR.

ruawake says the vast majority support amalgamation? According to the AEC plebiscite figures posted on my website this isn't correct. 20.5% said Yes to Amalgamation, 77% said No and 2.5% voted Informal.

The Qld Labor Government want to push ahead with the Amalgamations, the Traveston Dam, add fluoride to our water, don't want to give us a say on Daylight Saving, and add recycled water to SEQ Water supplies. Most of these decisions were made after the 2006 election and Beattie disappeared quicker than Houdini after he aborted the Size, Shape and Sustainability (SSS) in favour of the Queensland Government's Local Government Reform. When do the citizens have a say?

Yet there are Queenslanders who even with all that said, think we live in a Democracy? However, there are a great many that have had enough of this and want their Democratic Rights, and are doing something about it. Queenslanders must unite to be heard and we will be.

Updates are at my website www.qldpcs.com.au

chris c

I am certainly aware of Mr Kevin Rudd's position within the Office of Qld at the time of the Heiner Affair.

Suggest you might like to "dig a little deeper" into the truth. Forget the elections, I am a swinging voter. I have no allegiance to Liberal or Labor just want truth and justice to prevail.