Tellingly, only about 80 of the hundreds of impact statements started each year get to decision makers, which means the process itself knocks out poorly thought out proposals.
I'm all for 90% of shit never getting to parliament but fuck me this secretive body is powerful.
Set up during the 1980s to ensure government decisions didn’t needlessly tie up business in red tape, *the office gradually was given other things to consider, *
Yup. That's why this "Indigenous Voice to Parliament" thing needs to be fought for all it is worth. Because it'll just be this same, non-democratic, unanswerable (to the 98% of the population who doesn't "identify" as Aboriginal), extrajudicial body...
That's the problem with this country, and its endless, and ever-increasingly, needless bureaucracy... :-/
I'm all for 90% of shit never getting to parliament but fuck me this secretive body is powerful.
Government always expands.
It's somewhat ironic, isn't it?
"We need to cut business red tape by, uhh, creating a body which generates MORE red tape!"
"Yes, that makes perfect sense!"
Fuck me this country is dumb... :-/
Not dumb, it is very intentional. Not every politician is in on it but it is coordinated.
Yup. That's why this "Indigenous Voice to Parliament" thing needs to be fought for all it is worth. Because it'll just be this same, non-democratic, unanswerable (to the 98% of the population who doesn't "identify" as Aboriginal), extrajudicial body...
That's the problem with this country, and its endless, and ever-increasingly, needless bureaucracy... :-/