"Is this the end of states?" My Comments on ABC online article by Quentin Dempster

The Henry tax review: is this is end of states?
Link to Quentin Dempster's article:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/21/2663372.htm
by Omaxa bin Eartha
22/08/09.



Catchy title, Quentin?

And possibly Good News on taxes, if Canberra has the genitals to go all the way with tax review?

Yeah, it does open the door to "the end of states", but is a very "shallow", slow and tentative start.

"Soft" is another word I use in these scenes, because time IS short in the fields of Good Governance, and, tax and states reform has been known as necessary for many decades.

Perhaps Westminster and it's diluting-delaying structure is the stick-in-the-mud?

HARK?! Another arena begging for Reform.

On that, I heard a chap from Britain on RN's "Counterpoint" this week telling us that "Westminster is broken". So perhaps we in the colonies have friends in Blighty, where is seems to matter, to assist we at Paul Keating's "bottom-of-the-Earth" to make-straighter, the road to Hell?

There's nothing in your report directly about "ending states", which is fair enough, as tax is the issue there.

But broader Reform nationwide is a must, and the end of states has to be high on the agenda, if Progress-big-P is to actually occur.

From my inquiries and observations, little Progress will happen while the states, & NSW tops the list, are left or allowed to maintain their post-1808-style of utterly Soul-less corruption.

With an ALL-parties revisiting of issues such as the Australian REPUBLIC, dissolution of the current three tier governing structures-read-strictures (into expanded in size and number, ecology-&-demographic-based Regional Councils), wholesale taxation reform, as well as other reforms like work law reforms, banking reforms, and Land ownership reforms, (the latter encapsulated within suggested tax reforms), and perhaps bottomline - EDUCATION reforms, Dr Henry and "Withers" (-was-it?) and even Bob Carr's suggestions, advice and evidence-based findings may carry the weight they/we/the planet needs to lessen the otherwise impending Global Everything Meltdown or "GEM", as I was calling the GFC, at it's height.

Perhaps we have to wait a while yet, for the quoted "second shock" on the global and commercial property markets before anyone in our present houses of parliament and council chambers will find the Courage and popular support to be serious about cleaning up the states-based corruption which so debilitates EVERYONE, not just homeless bums like meself.

Then of course, there's some serious review of our Priorities in affairs-de-military, and "drug laws", which are integral in interfering with Proper and Good Government, domestically and globally, say what?