By Andrew Mackinnon
Last updated: 17th November, 2023
The number of federal electorates and federal elected representatives in the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Parliament should be increased from the current 151 to more than 500, so that there is one elected representative for every local government area in Australia, whose vote in the House of Representatives is weighted according to the size of the population of the local government area that he or she represents.
This significant change would result in a considerable strengthening of democracy in the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Parliament, so that it would be much more difficult for the House of Representatives to subversively produce anti-democratic outcomes by approving federal policies and laws for Australia which do not represent the majority will of Australian citizens.
The ultimate objective is to enable every Australian citizen aged eighteen years and over to vote voluntarily via the internet or via telephone on every issue that our elected representatives currently decide on our behalf, so that the majority will of Australian citizens is reflected in every issue decided in the House of Representatives.
The Senate in the Australian Federal Parliament should be abolished on account of its anti-democratic nature and history of voting down federal policies and laws which a majority of elected representatives in the House of Representatives have approved.
State and territorial governments in Australia should be abolished so that only the federal government and local governments remain.
I believe that the existence of state and territorial governments in Australia is an obstacle that has been deliberately established in order to prevent the federal government and local governments in Australia from operating effectively in the best interests of Australian citizens.
For example, it would be preferable if there was only one property titles system covering the entire country, administered by the federal government, instead of a separate property titles system for each state and territory in Australia. This is only one of a multitude of examples that could be cited.
It is also much easier for citizens to oppose and change the policies and laws of the federal government that they don’t like, than it is for citizens to oppose and change the policies and laws of the federal government and eight state and territorial governments that they do not like.
States and territories should be retained as geographic entities in order to minimise the disruption resulting from the abolishment of state and territorial governments and to facilitate federal governmental administration. The federal government should use buildings previously used by state and territorial governments in order to administer federal policies and laws throughout Australia.
All Australian citizens should be issued with a federal identity card which shows their photograph, full name, date of birth, address and identification number, but which contains no electronically stored data, no biometric data and no other data of any type.
A flat rate of income tax of 25% on all income should be implemented, by abolishing the tax-free threshold.
All other taxes should be abolished, including all taxes on business profits, all taxes on capital gains and the Goods & Services Tax (GST).
All public schools in Australia, including all public primary schools and all public secondary schools, should be owned and controlled by the Australian federal government and should be funded by income tax. The parents of the students of public schools should not pay for the students’ use of public schools in Australia because school in Australia is compulsory up until the end of Year 9, Year 10 or Year 11, when students have reached the age of 15, 16 or 17 years, depending on the state or territory in Australia, as far as I am aware.
All TAFE (Technical And Further Education) colleges in Australia and universities in Australia should be owned and controlled by the Australian federal government and should be funded half by user pays and half by income tax.
All public hospitals in Australia should be owned and controlled by the federal government and should be funded half by user pays and half by income tax.
All property rates charged by local governments should be kept to fair and reasonable levels.