THE Senate must be abolished.
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Our country is presently run by a group of people who virtually nobody voted for and an opposition leader who can’t answer simple questions.
What other organisation has two boards of directors — one to make policy and another to block it?
Nobody can define the function of the present Senate.
They can tell you why it was originally established and how it carries out none of its original functions but they can’t tell you what value it adds to the modern legislative process.
As the overall cost of the base salaries of senators alone is $14,829,880 the total cost of the Senate to taxpayers must amount to tens of millions of dollars. For what?
In 1922, the Queensland upper house was removed because it had become the same obstructive machine as our present Federal Senate. Is Queensland less well governed than any other Australian state?
The Abbott government must put abolition of the Senate to a referendum.
Without the removal of this Senate, Australia is ungovernable.
— D.A. CORBETT,
Essendon