Currently, whoever wins the election dictates policy for the whole country. Another approach is “One country – two systems”.
Different rules and different tax and spending regimes would apply for progressive and conservative electorates. This would reduce ‘red-blue’ conflict and keep the country together.
One country – two systems
| Progressive Multi-Cultural | Conservative Mono-Culture |
|---|---|
| Progressive society | Conservative society |
| ►Multi-cultural society | ►No new or recent migrants |
| ►Religious freedom | ►No mosques or temples |
| ►Freedom of dress | ►Ban religious face-coverings (E.g. burqa & niqab), ban topless bathing |
| ►Abortion permitted | ►Abortion banned |
| ►Highly regulated Government supply of some recreational drugs | ►Continued attempted prohibition of recreational drugs except alcohol and tobacco |
| ►Flexiweek | ►No Flexiweek |
| Change taxes, higher benefits | Existing taxes, lower benefits |
| ►Lower taxes for workers | ►Existing deductions for the wealthy |
| ►Expand Medicare to add Denticare | ►No Denticare |
| ►Higher public health funding | ►Continued private health insurance rebate |
| ►Key vaccines free & mandated | ►Vaccines optional |
| ►Public schools | ►Private schools |
| ►New affordable housing | ►No new affordable housing |
| New energy | Old energy |
| ►Renewables strongly encouraged | ►No new wind turbines or large solar farms |
| ►No nuclear power. | ►Nuclear power permitted – subject to private funding – but not near progressive zones and with waste stored on-site. |
| ►Most new vehicles to be electric | ►No EV mandate |
| Rules determined by the progressive government | Rules influenced by the conservative opposition leader(s) |
Between one quarter and one third of electorates would consider themselves strongly conservative. The rest would be progressive.
By splitting electorates in this way the government can make progressive areas more progressive.
See this article for what One Nation supporters really want: The Age.
Implementation
- The government would refund State stamp duty for citizens moving between Progressive to Conservative electorates. This would be funded by reducing State grants by the same amount.
- The government may need to acquire and sell properties to assist people, religions and businesses move between zones.
- There would be NO restriction on movement between the areas.
- The rules governing the AEC’s redistribution process would need to change such that the boundaries between conservative and progressive electorates could not change – but electorates would not need to be geographically continuous within a State or Territory. By this means the AEC can still keep the numbers in each electorate roughly the same. (Alternatively the government would need to help people move if they wanted to.)