We were hit with some interesting thoughts in my recent blog how we do things. I thought we should discuss some of the ideas you were spitting out like goobers on a 3 km jog.

Apparently and overwhelming percentage of you think the states should be abolished and this country should be dropped back to a council / national government set up as is prevalent in many other countries.

My concern is that things like hospitals, police forces etc are to big to be run by a local council and to small to be run by a national government. Qld Police can’t afford a helicopter now heaven knows how they would do this on a council by council basis. I would also have concerns having hospitals run at a national level, its hard enough for our politicians to understand the situation at the moment, imagine including another 2 –3 levels of ‘health department management’ impairing the message from nurse / doctor to health minister. The last thing the health system needs is more management.

In my humble opinion of course….

What about you, what advantages can you see by nationalising or regionalising the above examples, or other examples as you see fit?