Okay my fellow Aussies, a recent piece popped up on my Newsfeed that propose a National Drivers License Scheme to instigated throughout Australia.
Imo, it's a bloody good idea and should cover both Drivers Licenses, Road Rules, Speed Limits, etc, etc, as well.
To my way of thinking, We, Australians have lived way too long in the parochial ideology of one state versus the others.
We have been stuck in the rut of being a Country divided and separated into 6 different States and 2 Territories, it IS, imo, high time we ALL untied as One People, One Country, One Federated Nation with One Central Government instead of each State having its own State Government, its own individual Laws, etc.
Why not make it One Central Government with a Representative Body/Administration instead of having so many needless and extra Elections occurring in different years and needing so many extra Politicians costing the Tax-payers more than is truly needed?
At present Australia seems be somewhat akin to the " Push me-Pull You " animal from the original Dr. Doolittle movie in that it tries to go in 2 or more directions at the same time but actually goes nowhere at all.
Any comments for or against would be welcome to see/read and discussed.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I think that the two tiered system was to prevent a federal government from having too much power, however as a teacher my teaching registration board card is useless out side of my state my working with children card is useless outside of my state, I think having national standards and requirements would allow for better movement from one state to another. If I moved to another state I lose all of my sick leave and have to apply for another job. I also have to resign from my current job.
Budgie
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June 15, 2020
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Interestingly the CES or Commonwealth Employment Service was set up to enable the national management of labour. As it became more and more apparent that government could not create the jobs needed to employ the people and that the sevice was easily identified as a single government cost it was obviously preferable to absolve Government from the responsibility by hiveing it off to private enterprise to add an additional cost called shareholder profit and as far as the labour view goes no one takes responsibility employers being ripped off through placement fees and of course labour being denied full wage because of the payment.
FrayedBear
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Even John Howard has said that, were we able to design govt for Australia without our history, it would be better not to have states and state governments. I agree entirely, but it will never happen. The states are so entrenched in the psyche of Australians at the political, cultural, sports and arts level that it will never happen. We have to live with all the problems of having states and a fed govt.
Doubting
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June 14, 2020
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But we do NOT have to continue to live with the decrepit parochial system at all, We CAN change it and for the better as well.
We can still retain the system of Sports, i.e. AFL, NRL, etc, since those systems, mainly, are City/Suburbs based anyway and does not the A.F.L., for example, mean Australian Football League just as the N.R. L. also means 'National Ruby League.'
Yes, Sheffield Shield Cricket is somewhat a State based Competition but it can remain the same BUT Culture, Politics, Arts, etc, are National and, in particular, Culture and Arts belong to the People and the Nation as a whole and NOT to just the IndividualStates or the Peoples of those States.
My understanding is that the States are above the Commonwealth in the hierarchy. At any time theCommoneealth can be dissolved by any state leaving.
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