The radio has reported this morning that former Victorian State Premier Jeff Kennett has proposed that there would be value in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania amalgamating.
What say you to going the full monty and getting rid of all state governments and their associated fat bureaucracies?
The Australian Constitution was a fine document for its time, but is it time to review some of the fundamental structures underpining the Commonwealth of Australia? FFS there are only 24 millions of us in the Lucky Country and around the world there are some megacities with greater populations.
It seems that there is a high price paid by residents for their supposed state governments which are little more than Lord Mayors and City Councillors of the respective State Capital Cities because they seem to have little interest in what happens outside the boundaries of the State Capitol metropolitan area.
How much money and resources would be freed up for infrastructure development, education, health and rugby if we did away with the State Governments and all their associated agencies which in many instances are duplicates of Federal agencies?
What say you to going the full monty and getting rid of all state governments and their associated fat bureaucracies?
The Australian Constitution was a fine document for its time, but is it time to review some of the fundamental structures underpining the Commonwealth of Australia? FFS there are only 24 millions of us in the Lucky Country and around the world there are some megacities with greater populations.
It seems that there is a high price paid by residents for their supposed state governments which are little more than Lord Mayors and City Councillors of the respective State Capital Cities because they seem to have little interest in what happens outside the boundaries of the State Capitol metropolitan area.
How much money and resources would be freed up for infrastructure development, education, health and rugby if we did away with the State Governments and all their associated agencies which in many instances are duplicates of Federal agencies?