Former Prime Minister Paul Keating on the dismissal

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Keating’s ridiculous insistence that the Senate is “unrepresentative swill”, even to this day, is a notable shortcoming of his views here that might get lost in the midst of his even more ridiculous assertion that he would have had the police arrest the governor general, if he were the deposed Prime Minister. Yes, the Senate gives Tasmanians a disproportionate voice compared to New South Welshmen, but by its electoral method, it nevertheless produces a result which is a much more representative of the wishes of the Australian people than the House of Representatives is.

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  • sola@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I hold a similiar position without the contempt. To many layers of government with things like States being a concept of a distance past. With modern communication, the need for geographic divisions is unnessary. I have 5 or more members who represent me geographically(council,state lower, state upper, federal lower, federal upper) that is too many.

    Also I don’t have high opinion of Keating either, just another neo-liberal who made life harder for the generations after boomers.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are you from Canberra or the NT? Because if not, you have 13 members who represent you geographically in the federal Parliament alone.

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