7 Dec
2019
7 Dec
'19
9:40 a.m.
On 2019-12-07 10:26, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Minor nitpick, note that we have the "washminster mutation", viz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system#'Washminster'_system_of_Australia
Not that big a mutation. The only essential difference is the upper house has a veto. And in the AU senate we have what is possibly the least representative elected body in the world: where else does one region have 15 times greater representation than another? The primary difference is still the separation of legislature and executive, a good thing in principle (you can argue about the implementation). /A