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Ideas the engine of new growth : Comments
By Craig Emerson, published 12/12/2008There is nothing more powerful, it seems, than the power of a good idea created by a vivid imagination.
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How is this for an Idea?. Since the Liberal Party, has been the driving force for government by lawyers for lawyers, why don’t you start to restore balance to the economy, and stop the Lawyers Party, which is still in government, despite an overwhelming vote of no confidence last election, by having your leader publicly repudiate the Australia Act 1986. You and Kevin Rudd are both too intelligent to accept it can be legitimate, even though it was passed with Labor Party Support. It cannot both continue the Commonwealth and abolish it in the one Act. It cannot repudiate our Christian Heritage, and continue it. It cannot authorize a break up of the Federation, without a referendum, and the idea that it can should be rejected.
In 1984, the Labor Government referred a question to the Australian People. Question two was seeking approval for an Act to allow the Commonwealth and States, to voluntarily refer powers to each other. It was refused, but the Australia Act 1986, did it anyway. The politics of consensus, all the rage in 1984, was not enough. The idea that Australia is a United States, has held back progress.
Without a fully functional Federation, with a totally independent judiciary, drawn not from the Lawyers Party, but from the electorate, the Federation has collapsed. The ideas of New Labor, that the States are superfluous, in an age of fast transport, are commendable. Keep up the good work