2010-12-10
Would you recommend this product to a friend? : Yes
How long have you owned this product? : 3
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Pros : Useful Text about Australian Politics and Republicans
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Title : Excellent Read
Detailed Review : Until his retirement, Klaas Woldring was a lecturer at the Southern Cross University in Lismore. Throughout the years, he has been a passionate advocate of Australia''s political independence and of a maximalist approach to the creation of a genuinely Australian republic, that is, one which involves the Australian head of state being directly elected by the people at large. In suggesting how Australia should prepare itself politically, culturally and economically for the rest of the 21st century, Woldring, in his self-published book, manages to think outside the square. He explores a number of ways to persuade Australians that it is safe to have a directly elected president, separate from our two houses of parliament. He cogently argues that our current federation of states and federal-state relations, our prevailing electoral system and certain aspects of the "Westminister system" are "costly and undemocratic relics of the past that should be discarded and replaced with superior models". How About Our Republic? is a useful text for all students of Australian politics and especially for all thorough-going republicans. ~~~~~~~~ By Ross Fitzgerald Fitzgerald R. HOW ABOUT OUR REPUBLIC?. Bulletin with Newsweek [serial online]. January 16, 2007;·125(6603):70-71. Available from: Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, Ipswich, MA. Accessed December 5, 2010.

2010-12-07
Would you recommend this product to a friend? : Yes
How long have you owned this product? : 3
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Nickname : Online Shopper
Title : Thinking outside the square on the Republic issue.
Detailed Review : Until his retirement, Klaas Woldring was an Associate Professor at the Southern Cross University in Lismore. Throughout the years, he has been a passionate advocate of Australia''s political independence and of a maximalist approach to the creation of a genuinely Australian republic, that is, one which involves the Australian head of state being directly elected by the people at large. In suggesting how Australia should prepare itself politically, culturally and economically for the rest of the 21st century, Woldring, in his self-published book, manages to think outside the square. He explores a number of ways to persuade Australians that it is safe to have a directly elected president, separate from our two houses of parliament. He cogently argues that our current federation of states and federal-state relations, our prevailing electoral system and certain aspects of the "Westminister system" are "costly and undemocratic relics of the past that should be discarded and replaced with superior models". How About Our Republic? is a useful text for all students of Australian politics and especially for all thorough-going republicans. ~~~~~~~~ By Ross Fitzgerald Fitzgerald R. HOW ABOUT OUR REPUBLIC?. Bulletin with Newsweek [serial online]. January 16, 2007;·125(6603):70-71. Available from: Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, Ipswich, MA. Accessed December 5, 2010.