Time for a Stateless Australia

What most companies do in times of economic crisis is to cut out useless middle management. It is time to the same in Australia.

The population of some greater metro areas of a city are more than the whole population of Australia. Australia has three levels of governance, Federal, State and Council. This is one too many.

There are no decisions required at a State level that could not be guided by a federal oversight with council level implementation. States spend large sums of money doing State stuff, designed to impress the voter but not that does anything substantive.

So lets get rid of the States. We don;t have the population to need them and all original reasons for them vanish in the modern world. With travel and communications times reduced and in a world where contact is easy the States system is not longer required. Worse States stand in the the way of efficient distribution of resources.

In a Federally managed system there would be no water wars because the whole system would be managed not controlled by a single State that holds the others to ransom. The amount of public funding and taxes required by one less layer of government would result in savings for every taxpayer in the country. No more fighting and blocking by a State of one party when another is in power at the Federal level.

Its time to consider getting rid of what are now just arbitrary lines on a map supporting an opulent lifestyle by a small groups of individuals sucking up a lot of taxpayer funds.