Lower House of States

This is the formal outline of an idea for Australian government, first sketched up in this G+ thread:

https://plus.google.com/?tab=XX#113159909138497449250/posts/h8xKP9wvwTy

It is the CascadeGovernment idea proposed elsewhere on this wiki, turned on it's head.

Summary of changes

• The government is formed not by local representatives, but by senators from the states. 20 from each state (including NT), and 10 from other territories (including the ACT). It's up to the states to determine how they select 20 members from their numbers. (and QLD misses out till they get an upper house again).

• The federal senate is proportionally elected across the WHOLE country, and is no longer based on preserving states' rights. (since states are now represented within the lower house - making this a better 'commonwealth of states' than what we have now.