rosy23 said:
Anduril said:
As to $$$. When governments can spend billions on self promotion and name changes to govt depts, then a President and Republic is a drop in the ocean I think.
Monarchy contravenes Australian laws of discrimination etc too.
I wouldn't have a clue how much turfing the monarchy would cost but I'd prefer drops in the ocean to turn into drops in our water system. :hihi
I've gotta admit I'm apathetic about the topic really. Happy to go with the flow.
Out of general interest I'd be interested to know how the Monarchy contravenes discrimination laws Andy.
Remote excuse my ignorance, this isn't a topic I have much interest in usually, but how does the 3 tiers of Govt tie in with the Monarchy and the way our manufacturing sector is managed? :-[
The Monachy is the head of our Westminster Government System - The Queen's representative, The GG, has to sign and seal all acts of parliament as the final approval before it becomes law. If we are going to move away from the Monachy we need another system to create the final approval of an act of parliament - A Head of State. Hence we have to change the constitution.
If we are going to change our Constitution to enable us to become a Republic and move away from the Westminster Government System - why not take the opportunity to rewrite the whole consititution? Thus streamlining Government from a 3 tier (Federal, State and Local) system to possibly a two tier system. Federal and Local or Federal and State (where state looks after all the local council responsibilities).
Federalism would be responsible for National Security, Defence, Immigration, Health (Hospitals etc), Education (all levels - one curriculum), Social Security, Water, Conservation, One Australian Drivers Licence, Australian Birth Certificate etc. etc. This would stop the never ending bulldust about the Federal Government blaming the State Government for poor Education or Hospitals or bad water conservation. Or the State Governments blaming the Federal Government - and currently while they are pointing the stick at each other we the people continue to circle the gurgler!
To stop the claim that all control would be centered in Canberra - the Federal Departments could be relocated to other cities with just the parlaiment and major departments of the inner cabinet in Canberra.
How does the current 3 tier system impose itself on Manufacturing? My understanding is that a manufacurer has to pay Federal Taxes (Company Taxes, PAYE, Stevedoring etc.) State Taxes (Payroll Tax, Land Tax etc.) and Local Council Taxes (Water Rates and general Rates etc.) Add all these together and I have been advised by the Managing Director of a very large food manufacturer in NSW that 49% of his manufacturing company's costs relate to a government act. By changing our constitution and removing a tier of Government we could remove the taxes that Government has been imposing. E.G. if we got rid of State Governments we could remove Payroll Taxes and Land Taxes - who would then perfrom the public service a state government provides? - Those public services could be distributed to the Federal Government Departments (now distributed to the major capital cities) a number of regional governments which could be amalgamations of Local councils to create a local government for that area.
Currently around 28% of the Australian Workforce is on a Government Payroll - a vast majority of which do not produce GDP (some do) - which means that 72% of the workforce that do produce products and services that are calculated into our GDP are looking after the Government guys through taxes.
Reduce the Government size by removing a tier of government will decrease taxes increase GDP and remove a hell of a lot of red tape in this country.
Futher if you remove the state governments one could argue there is no need for a Federal Senate because that was set up to protect the individual smaller colonies from being over run by Victoria and NSW - no federal Senate - less taxes again.
Lets be honest some of the Politicians in this country at Fedeal, State and Local Government Levels are oxygen thieves and you and I as producing Australians are supporting their oppulent lives. Lets get those out and into the producing workforce so they can support themselves!
Please note I consider that Teachers, Professors, Doctors, Nurses are all part of a producing workforce.
What I do not consider part of a producing workforce is those public servants who work in a Federal Department or a State Department that does exactly the same thing. eg. Federal Department of Education, State Departments of Education - Federal Tourism, State Tourism, - Federal Austrade, State Departments of Trade - Federal Department of Health, State Department's of Health, etc. etc. etc.
Duplication everywhere and the taxpayer is paying for it.
Strewth - sorry Rosy - I will get off my soap box now - but it is something that really irks me - is the miss appropriation of Taxpayers money into duplicate services for a pissy little population of 20+ million people. All because some Politician and some beauracrats want to hang onto their fifedoms their areas of power and importance - they need to be redirected into jobs that produce returns for Australia and for us all!
My opinion only......RT
