Have these people actually read the constitution

It seems that there are a number of people in the Commonwealth Parliament who don’t appear to have read, you know, the foundational document of the Nation that is Australia. That document is the Australian Constitution.

This document, massively abused by many governments and the little desiccated coconut imbedded the principals of federalism and subsidiarity.

Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.

Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution.

There are several provisions of the constitution that deals with these principles, but Section 51 lists the areas that are the provenance of the Commonwealth with the rest belonging to the states.

Here are, for example, the first 6 out of the 34 areas that belong to the Commonwealth:

 (i.)  Trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States:

 (ii.)  Taxation; but so as not to discriminate between States or parts of States:

 (iii.)  Bounties on the production or export of goods, but so that such bounties shall be uniform throughout the Commonwealth:

 (iv.)  Borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth:

 (v.)  Postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services:

 (vi.)  The naval and military defence of the Commonwealth and of the several States, and the control of the forces to execute and maintain the laws of the Commonwealth:

It was thus with great irritation that I read that the Federal Member for Kooyong, Dr Monique Ryan said this:

As the federal member for Kooyong, I will use every bit of my power to push for massive ­federal investment in transport infrastructure, including removal of these level crossings, plenty of off-street parking, EV infrastructure, and consideration of green spaces and heritage concerns. These projects must have proper investment, adequate community consultation, and beautiful design that fits our local communities.

The Commonwealth has no constitutional role in local transport and especially level crossings. And off-street parking and EV infrastructure.

For the love of god.

If she is interest in these matters, she should immediately resign and run for State or Local government.

Buffoon. But she’s not the only one. And they vote on laws that affect all of us.

Doomed. We are doomed.