How would the various state legislation be it criminal, work place, civil etc be enforced – would we keep it the same as is with state regulatory bodies, state police force etc?
If the state governments were outed in a referendum tomorrow, all the existing laws in each state would continue as normal and enforced by each state’s police force. There would be no new state laws ever introduced. The existing state laws all continue until a elected national government passes a law on a particular matter. Some areas of the state laws may continue for ten or thirty years – if there cannot be agreement in the federal parliament on a law. But most laws can be made common for all states of Australia. (E.g. murder is murder in every state – but may currently have totally different max/min lengths in gaol. If a national govt can get a law passed in both houses of parliament on murder – then that law will replace all existing murder laws and the police in each state will keep doing their job and each state legal system will enforce/judge according to the statute law that has been updated).
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