You seem to forget that the federation was set up to have all parliamentarians getting the same allowance and now this has been changed that in effect (albeit unconstitutionally) their allowance has been increased astronomically and on top of that they get additional allowances that were to be in the original allowance. As such forget about councillors accepting peanuts of $30,00000 or so as the mayor is already on $65,000.00 and going up.
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Constitutionally you cannot get rid of the States and anyone proposing this is advocating to abolish the federation all together.
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This post doesn’t allow the set out that is needed to explain it all but you can forget about this $50 billion dollar saving nonsense.
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Do you really think the federal Parliament is going to be lumped with all State legislation and then not ask for any more pay? Come on be realistic, they already now are screaming about not getting enough.
People who are talking about abolition of the States do not understand what the Commonwealth stands for. They are ignorant to reality and to the federal compact.
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If they want to make sense about their claims then let them explain in details how they propose to achieve it all, but I have no doubt their claims are idealist and lack proper foundations because they do not understand what the federation is about.
The same with this “Republic” referendum a sheer and utter constitutional nonsense. Not constitutionally achievable as it is beyond Section 128 referendum powers!
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Hmmm, *England* (not the UK) has how many citizens? And how many legislatures?