By Andrew Mackinnon
Last updated: 5th September, 2025
A referendum should be held on abolishing Australian state and territorial governments so that only the Australian federal government and Australian local governments remain, while retaining Australian states and territories as geographic entities, referred to as “Australian territories”, in order to facilitate Australian federal governmental administration.
The buildings currently occupied by Australian state and territorial governments in the Australian states and territories and currently used by Australian state and territorial governments for Australian state and territorial governmental administration and Australian state and territorial governmental service delivery to Australian citizens in the Australian states and territories can be occupied as necessary by the Australian federal government in the Australian territories and used as necessary by the Australian federal government for Australian federal governmental administration and Australian federal governmental service delivery to Australian citizens in the Australian territories.
The existence of Australian state and territorial governments is an obstacle that prevents the Australian federal government and Australian local governments from operating effectively and efficiently in the best interests of Australian citizens.
For example, it would obviously be preferable if there was only one property titles system covering the entirety of Australia, administered by the Australian federal government, instead of a separate property titles system for each Australian state and territory, administered by each Australian state and territorial government.
It is also much easier for some 23.5 million Australian citizens to oppose and change the policies of the Australian federal government that they do not like, than it is for some 23.5 million Australian citizens to oppose and change the policies of the Australian federal government and eight Australian state and territorial governments that they do not like.
A referendum should be held on abolishing the Australian Senate in the Australian Parliament, on account of its anti-democratic nature, in the form of the tendency of Australian Senators in the Australian Senate in the Australian Parliament to vote against constructive legislation that a majority of the elected Australian Representatives in the Australian House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament have agreed to.
Existing Australian electorates of the elected Australian Representatives in the Australian House of Representatives (ideally named “Australian Forum of Representatives”) in the Australian Parliament should be redefined to match existing Australian local government areas, which number circa 567 (including 30 unincorporated areas, being areas that are not governed by Australian local governments but are referred to as Australian local government areas for the sake of national consistency).
There should be one elected Australian Representative from each Australian electorate in the Australian Forum of Representatives in the Australian Parliament, numbering 567 elected Australian Representatives.
This significant change would result in a considerable strengthening of democracy in the Australian Forum of Representatives in the Australian Parliament, so that it would be much more difficult for the Australian Forum 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 vote of each elected Australian Representative in the Australian Forum of Representatives in the Australian Parliament should be weighted according to the number of Australian citizens aged 18 years or over in their Australian electorate at the start of the current financial year as a percentage of the total number of Australian citizens aged 18 years or over in the entirety of Australia at the start of the current financial year.
Weighted votes of the elected Australian Representatives in the Australian Forum of Representatives in the Australian Parliament will do away with the need to change the boundaries of Australian federal electorates in Australia, being Australian local government areas.
The Australian Forum of Representatives in the Australian Parliament should set up a computerised voting system in order to facilitate the effective and efficient use of the weighted votes of the elected Australian Representatives in the Australian Forum of Representatives in the Australian Parliament.
The ultimate objective is to enable every Australian citizen aged 18 years or over to vote voluntarily via the internet or via telephone on every issue that their elected Australian Representatives currently decide on their behalf, so that the majority will of Australian citizens is reflected in every issue decided in the Australian Forum of Representatives.
All Australian citizens should be required to obtain an Australian Identity Card (AIC) compulsorily, which shows their photograph, full name, address, date of birth and Australian Identity Number (AIN) but which contains no electronically stored data, no biometric data and no other data of any type.
There should be no charge by Australian Identity on behalf of the Australian federal government to Australian citizens for obtaining an Australian Identity Card, on account of all Australian citizens being required to obtain an Australian Identity Card compulsorily, so that the cost of Australian Identity providing all Australian citizens with an Australian Identity Card should be funded via Goods and Services Tax.
However, if any Australian citizen loses their Australian Identity Card, they should be required to replace it and they should be charged a fee for replacing their Australian Identity Card on a not-for-profit basis.
All Australian citizens aged 18 years or over should be required to prove their identity using their Australian Identity Card, in order to be allowed to vote in Australian federal government elections and Australian local government elections, as well as Australian federal referendums.
A flat rate of Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 25% should be charged by the Australian federal government on all goods and services produced in Australia and sold in Australia, including food and rent, with no exceptions apart from the obvious exception of second-hand goods, in order to facilitate efficient administration of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by Australian citizens, Australian businesses, Australian not-for-profit entities and Australian federal government entities.
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) should not be charged on second-hand goods under any circumstances.
There should be no other exceptions to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) under any circumstances, including food and rent, in order to facilitate efficient administration of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by Australian citizens, Australian businesses, Australian not-for-profit entities and Australian federal government entities.
Goods and Services Tax ensures that the Australian federal government treats all Australian citizens equally, by charging each of them the same flat rate of Goods and Services Tax on the goods and services they buy.
A flat rate of Goods and Services Tax of 25% charged by the Australian federal government on all goods and services produced in Australia and sold in Australia, including food and rent, with no exceptions apart from the obvious exception of second-hand goods, would make all Australian citizens who pay Goods and Services Tax contributors to the operation of Australia and therefore legitimate stakeholders in the Australian federal government.
All other Australian federal government taxes should be abolished, including income tax, all taxes on business profits, all taxes on capital gains, fuel tax and the Medicare levy.
Australian local government rates for individual properties in Australian local government areas should not be calculated on the basis of property values in Australian local government areas, since property values in Australian local government areas have nothing whatsoever to do with the level of Australian local government services provided to the Australian citizens who use the individual properties.
Australian local government rates for individual properties in Australian local government areas should be calculated on the basis of the level of Australian local government services provided to individual properties, such as according to the number of Australian citizens who use the individual properties and their ages, in order to be able to accurately allocate the expenses of Australian local governments to individual properties via Australian local government rates.
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