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>>122797 (OP)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-next-big-idea_us_58ec9f44e4b0ea028d568ca8

> The idea is local tax freedom.

> He reminded listeners of Albert Einstein’s dictum that one’s ego is inversely proportional to ones knowledge. It is ignorant administrators with inflated egos who hide behind confidentiality and ‘you do not need to know’.

> For now, we have a good law. As rated by Canada’s Centre for Law and Democracy, here is how some countries fare out of 150: 1) Mexico 136; 2) Serbia 135; 3) Sri Lanka 131; 5) India 128; 34) UK 100; 35) Russia 98; 49) Canada 90; 57/58) US 83; 57/58) Australia 83; 82) China 70; 89) Israel 66; 111) Austria 32 -- the last of the RTI Countries. Singapore and Malaysia have no RTI Laws as to be expected.

- http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2017/04/16/secrecy-secret-to-absolute-power-professor-ratnajeevan-hoole/

> The Canadian Constitution of 1982 explicitly recognizes provincial authority in the fields of health care, education, taxation, and social benefits. The federal government is left to national defense, small levels of taxation, and the creation of the criminal code.

- https://panampost.com/yael-ossowski/2013/11/05/canada-the-true-north-american-experiment-in-decentralization/

> Indigenous affairs programs were centralised into the Prime Minister's department during Tony Abbott's short-lived leadership, in an attempt to improve results from federal government efforts for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

> Three quarters of the department's 2000 permanent public servants are based in Canberra but PM&C says it has about 190 of its indigenous affairs employees based in the territory.

> PM&C did not answer questions about what it thought of the Alice Springs idea, but said is already had 189 public servants working around the territory on indigenous programs.

- http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/push-for-prime-ministers-public-servants-to-move-to-alice-springs-20170405-gvdwxi.html

An alternate decentralization strategy:

sack 2/3's of the ones in canberra, hire 1000 new people from NT and the regions, possibly more

redirect funding from the fed to state and local government

They don't send any west australians off to canberra when they centralize things…

"The latest data indicates a multi-speed national economy," CommSec chief economist Craig James said.

"New South Wales is solidly on top, with little to separate the ACT and Victoria.

"Then there is a gap to Tasmania, Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia, then another gap to Western Australia."

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> "From a Canberra resident's viewpoint, long may gridlock reign, because it's bad for the nation, good for us," partner Chris Richardson said.

> "Somebody at some stage will be back in charge of Australia. We haven't really had a government with its hands on the wheel for a while. And you'd have to think that that could be a dangerous phase for Canberra when that eventually does happen, simply because the deficit remains pretty entrenched and you'd expect us to be part of the grand bargain - the lower spending and the higher taxes that get us on to to a sustainable setting for the budget."

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/act-economy-passes-victoria-to-become-second-strongest-in-australia-20170421-gvpm4y.html

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/act-economy-riding-high-on-housing-boom-and-federal-gridlock-20170417-gvm6xs.html

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/want-gas-fix-our-gst-share-says-wa-premier-mark-mcgowan-20170426-gvtceg.html

https://www.kallanishenergy.com/2017/04/27/australian-government-resurrects-west-east-gas-pipeline-plan/

Next they'll be piping our land east because theirs is too expensive and reserved for the export market

https://theconversation.com/want-electricity-reform-start-by-giving-power-back-to-the-states-72965

> In 1999, Australians were paying some of the lowest electricity prices in the world. Now they are among the highest. What went wrong?

Carbon pricing is cute, but what about spent uranium pricing while we're here

You're just making a market for something even worse

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