On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
The current situation with state governments is causing so much grief in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and NT with what they are doing.
In some respects, state vs federal adds some checks and balances, but they still fight over things, rather than getting good things done.
Certainly our Victorian constitution is invalid today as has been previously detailed -- that needs to be fixed ASAP, before we think about abolishing state governments. Local government must go first, there is no place for them, they should NOT exist and definitely not in their current form as corporations.
Really? There are some appallingly bad and corrupt local councils (Wollongong, Melbourne City), but local councils otherwise usually get positive things done. Not something you can say of state governments. Heck, local councils should be more local. There were the Kennett era amalgamations that removed local decision making power. How on earth would you propose a small country town in the middle of an electorate covering 5 other larger towns lobby to get their main road resealed without a local government? -- Tim Connors