Excise

07/06/2024

It occurs to me that it would be relatively easy to create a shadow parliament in Australia.

All you would have to go is create the thing, promote it, and go to.

Power to the eyeballs, mate.

What would it do? Make headlines by arguing about useless shit that no one really cares about, just like the real parliament.

We don’t need new laws anyway, we’ve already got way too many. So nobody cares about this function of parliament.

And it’s not as though the real parliament wouldn’t waste our money whilst we weren’t watching. It’s their role in life.

Right now, you’d not be breaking a law by creating a shadow parliament.

But give it 6 months of sucking the vacuum out of the ether, then you’d suddenly find it inexplicably unconstitutional under Section 90 of the constitution as it imposes a duty of excise (on common sense), as exercised by a state (i.e. any party that isn’t the commonwealth government).