While Australia is one of the six or seven oldest continuing democracies in the world, our Westminster system of representative democracy has been more and more compromised by an increasing democratic deficit.
Unless something is done this deficit will neuter democracy itself, turning the people into the servants and not the masters of the system.
The justification of representative democracy is that we choose each one of our representatives for his or her judgement.
But our representatives have more and more sacrificed ...
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Australians should be able to do three things through a citizens’ initiative. With this they should be able to recall a government which is seen to be just not performing (this could be limited to a particular politician). They should be able to say No to a law which goes aginst their deepest wishes. Further, they should be able to propose a law which they feel should be enacted.
In each instance a minimum number of citizens would have to sign a petition indicating, for example, that they wished to recall a government to a general ...
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This is a Petition addressed to the Federal, State and Territory Parliaments and governments,
By certain citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia,
Noting the serious compromise of the principles of representative government,
And therefore calling on each and all of them, as an interim measure:
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to introduce legislation now to enable no more than 5% of the people on the electoral roll to petition the Governor-General, the Governor or other representative of the Crown to hold a vote on a proposal for a Citizens' Recall of ...
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