Re: @ Takius: Planning Question
Posted: 25 Sep 2009, 11:40
Our council is the largest in Australia, and our Major - Campbell Newman is the highest ranked liberal in Australia.
Pretty sad.
Pretty sad.
Sure, but it's at least as inefficient (if not worse) to have the government pass whatever it likes, put up with crappy changes for 1-4 years and then vote in someone else to reverse them.Tassia wrote:I don't have a problem with this. This is why they were elected, to run the country. Not to have to negotiate legislation with some independant nob who got there by preferneces, who wants 5 trees saved in his back yard. In any case, if the government pwns both houses, this happens anyway.Cartollomew wrote:The alternative is that there's no balance of power and the government just passes pretty much what it likes.
Because some aspects of health/education affect us nationally, and some are (and should remain) the domain of the states - it's not the federal government's job to decide the details on building hospitals or schools (they get little enough time to address other stuff as is) and it's not the state governments' job to make decisions regarding Medicare.My comment was more to do with the massive waste in resources by having this middle tier (State) government. Why do both levels of government have an education portfolio? Health? It's just waste.