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Originally Posted by Ronnie Jane Devo
Would you mind explaining what "works well" about your government? I've heard some bad things about Australia regarding telecommunications privacy, censorship laws and the public transport system, so I have a feeling there's quite a lot of room for improvement.
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I didn't necessarily mean that our actual laws were good, but I meant the way our constitution operates and how the government is elected works well. I think our constitution is fair and allows for freedom of the people and of opinions. I'm definitely not saying that other countries who are republics
don't have this fairness and freedom, I'm just saying that since we have it, why change it?
What more specific bad things have you heard about Australia? Because I can't really relate to any of what you have said as being bad for me personally. Some bad decisions have been made in our laws, in which people have complained about, so the government has then tried to rectify their decision. I think this shows that the way our constitution works is fair. Like I said, I wasn't talking about specific laws but more so the way our government operates.
The fact that several of our cities (and NZ's cities to be fair) beat any places from the US or the UK into the list of the world's most livable cities (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's...livable_cities) shows that we have a good system in place as these surveys take into account: safety, hygiene, public transport, education, recreation, availability of goods and services, low personal risk, effective infrastructure, crime, tolerance, pro-active policy developments, and healthcare. I really don't think there is anything bad about our society and government and how they operate and this should act as a reference to show this. I consider myself very lucky and really don't want to change something that is already great.
I've heard much worse things about the rest of the world, where things like the healthcare system and education system (which are much more important IMO than public transport and telecommunications) get a lot of criticism and I know I would certainly prefer Australia's system.
There is nothing wrong with how our constitution operates, so why change it. We are a happy, free, and fair country, so why try to fix anything that's not 'broken'? That's all I'm saying.