What will be the financial cost of getting rid of state governments (transfering to responsibilities to the national and local governments)?
There will be no additional cost compared to what the current cost of having a state government in every state. If all of the state politicians are removed from the political structure in Australia this will save about $400 million each year. Since we have no premiers there would be no need to have six ‘Premier and Cabinate’ state public servant departments. These cost about $950 million each year. So the saving of not having those departments could be put towards a new public service department “Transition department” that coordinates the move from three levels of government to two. In fact the transition will save Australians money from the first year of removing state politicians.
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