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| Written by Charles Dodgson, on 29-10-2007 11:14 Excellent suggestion as a solution. Why not go further and get rid of state governments and use these new multi-represented federal (we would need a new adjective for our commonwealth government) electorates as our local government representation. Alternatively, an idle thought I have had is to further empower our local governments and use these to send a number of representatives to Canberra. For example, I live in the Sydney municipality of Randwick with 15 representatives. There is a similar breakdown to your example 40:40:20, labor, liberal, green and others. If three of these also served as representatives in Canberra - while remaining on more empowered local council - then it seems to me as if we would have a better democracy with less politicans, greater accountability and better public involvement in the political process. |
