Nationals MP Barnaby_Joyce says it made sense for Australia to have state governments in 1901, but things have moved on and we'd be better off without them.
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says it made sense for Australia to have state governments in 1901, but things have moved on and in 2020 we'd be better off without them. “It’s the biggest thing I get in chambers of commerce, in rotary meetings, from people on the street, they say ‘why do we have three tiers of government, why is this the case?’” Mr Joyce told Sky News host Peter Gleeson.
Mr Joyce said it was impossible to de-regulate if you have the same number of regulators. “ have got to find themselves a job, and they find themselves a job by creating arbitrary decisions on borders, and creating little fiefdoms and turning themselves into a form of east Germany where people are allowed in and people are allowed out," he said. “Rather than base it on epidemiology they base it on parochialism to try to garner a support because they’re lacking meaning in other ways.
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