He writes:
Why federalism should be abandoned and replaced.
"The Reform of Federation Paper “A Federation for Our Future”, recently published by the Abbot Government to generate a Green Paper, takes me back to a 2008 Conference on federal-state relations in Tenterfield. Abbott, an after-dinner speaker, then strongly advocated the dismantling of the states although the Rudd Government had, most disappointingly, just embraced another reincarnation of “cooperative federalism” passing up the very obvious chance to replace federation. Sadly, Abbott has changed his tune entirely and now talks about strengthening the states to operate in their “sovereign spheres to the extent possible”.
https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/klaas-woldring,54
I know Klaas via the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre.
PLEASE READ:
Dr Klaas Woldring Prof.-Retired, wrote:
"We find that younger Dutch Australians, and Dutch expatriates, are often not very aware of the important work involved in preserving the Dutch Heritage. The history of post-WWII immigrants is a large chunk of our work but there is much more to Dutch Heritage than that. The magnificent recent Mapping Australia exhibition in the National Library, Canberra made that perfectly clear. About half of the old maps displayed there were of Dutch 17th century origin, the products of VOC cartographers and seafarers who circumnavigated the Australian continent and mapped most of it.
The history of the WWII itself is also reflected in the role of the Dutch as the “Fourth Ally” and in important tales of those who came as refugees in 1942 from the Dutch East Indies.
And it is the story of several important individual contributions prior to WWII such as the Broken Hill Pty Ltd General Manager and pioneer Guillaume Delprat. Another example is the music shop operator Paling who started his business on the Victorian Gold Fields in the mid-1850s.
The Dutch contribution to the history of this continent is both unique and significant. This is often not realised widely in the Netherlands.
However, unless we display it ourselves here it may well be lost OR just become a very small part only of history found back in the occasional multi-cultural museum - among many other nationalities in this vast multicultural country. This is definitely NOT our objective."
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GO HERE:
http://dacc.com.au
The history of the WWII itself is also reflected in the role of the Dutch as the “Fourth Ally” and in important tales of those who came as refugees in 1942 from the Dutch East Indies.
And it is the story of several important individual contributions prior to WWII such as the Broken Hill Pty Ltd General Manager and pioneer Guillaume Delprat. Another example is the music shop operator Paling who started his business on the Victorian Gold Fields in the mid-1850s.
The Dutch contribution to the history of this continent is both unique and significant. This is often not realised widely in the Netherlands.
However, unless we display it ourselves here it may well be lost OR just become a very small part only of history found back in the occasional multi-cultural museum - among many other nationalities in this vast multicultural country. This is definitely NOT our objective."
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GO HERE:
http://dacc.com.au
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