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- Title: Lessons from Australia in Canadian Senate Reform.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 1995
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 254 KB
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Senate reform has proved a recurring issue in Canadian federalism, including the recent ill-fated Charlottetown constitutional accord. This article contends that most issues related to Senate reform in Canada have been addressed in Australia. Even those which have not can be better understood through an examination of Australian experience. The paper is based in part on interviews with sixteen Australian Senators in May and June 1994. All sixteen had been elected from Australia's four "outer" states (Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania). These states, like "outer" Canada, are heavily outnumbered in their majoritarian lower house by their two dominant neighbours (New South Wales and Victoria). Unlike their Canadian counterparts, they enjoy equal representation in a powerful upper house. **********