Australia Government Structure needed to be upgraded, to resolve its current dysfunctional nature.: Chapter 3 Executive Government

Introduction

The political dysfunctional of Australia within recent years, is evidence prove that the Australia Government Structure is outdated and needed major upgrade. The Commonwealth of Australia Government structure, is introduced in 1911, over 106 years ago, when the population of Australia is a mere, 4.5 million. Today, Australia is a country of over 24 million. Flaws of Australia government structure, that would not cause problems, one hundred years ago, is now helping to create the issue of political dysfunctional and political disorganize for modern Australia.

This series would explore flaws of Australia Government structure and how it is helping to create the issue of political dysfunction and political disorganize for modern Australia and what sort of upgrade will help resolve the problems.

Chapter 3 Executive Government

As a result, of the change to the Prime Minister position, the Executive government also require changing. According to US constitution, the power of the executive government is vast on the President, within the Executive Government of the US there are the US State Department, which is in charge of running the country and the Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff, in charge of assisting the President to run the military.

In Australia that same power is vast upon the Governor General. Despite the Prime Minister is the one that actually run the Executive Government, by constitution he is merely a minister of the Governor General.

As explain in part one, the primary resolution is to transform the Prime Minister, to become a Prime Minister in name, but a US style President in practice, elected by the people of Australia and independent from the House of Representative.

Thus, within this reform, we officially replace the Governor General with the Prime Minister, in the executive government, the additional advantage of such, is that, when Australia become a Republic, the Prime Minister can simply become a President in name also.

In addition, based on the Experience of the United States of America, why China collapsed by 19^th century and why prior to that China was most powerful for most of human history, is the important of not having an over centralized government structure. This include the executive government, which should be more decentralized.

One of the main reason, China was once the most powerful nation, is they know the importance of having a decentralize government structure. By, 207BC, China already established a three levels government, including Federal, State and Town. Each level is independent, with its own law, but Town can’t contradict the state it belongs to and State can’t contradict the Federal, thus, the Federal Government, only need to worry about the big picture of the country and need not worry about local affairs, this was a great advantage, 2000 years ago, when communication long distance, is hard and unlike today, where President can travel all over the country, the difficult to travel mean, ancient Emperor, cannot leave the capital, which is the command headquarter of the country and whenever the Emperor is not in the capital, the crown prince must, act as, acting Emperor.

In term of Federal, it is also highly decentralized, with three houses and nine ministries. The three houses included, administration (charged with administering the country, administer by the Prime Minister), military (administer by the Emperor) and monitoring (monitor federal and local government for treason and corruption). The 9 ministries, was yet, at an infant stage, back then, where most of the 9 ministries are charge with palace affairs, rather than state affairs. By the 14^th century, the system became mature, the executive government was split into three branches, including administration (administer by the Prime Minister), armed force (Administer by the Emperor, assist by a Senior Military Officer, the position is same as modern US Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff) and monitoring (administer by the Deputy Prime Minister). The administration branch is split into six ministries including internal affairs, foreign affairs, justice, defence, personnel and national service, each ministry has departments subject to it, each department, can have various organizations subject to it. This way, the Emperor only need to worry about the big picture, leaving detail to the officer in charge of the three branches. Then the Prime Minister need only worry about big picture of State admin, leaving detail to officer in charge of the six ministries, the officers charge with six ministries, only need worry about big picture of its ministry, leaving detail to departments subject to it, officer charge with each department, only need to worry about its big picture, leaving detail to each, organization subject to it. Each organization, got little work, to conduct. This is a great advantage, especially during those days, where traveling long distance take a long time and the distance between people is, longer, due to the slow travelling speed, to transport people and information. Later the First Emperor of the Ming Dynasty China, abolished the Prime Minster position, but later Emperors realize having the Emperor needing to administer all administration, is too much work and could lead the Emperor to miss the big picture, thus, by early 1400, the position of Secretary of State was established, a position that is same as modern US Secretary of State, as a loophole in the constitution of the Ming Dynasty China that does not allow Prime Minister. Such well-organized task orientated decentralized government system, is one of the main reason, China use to be the most powerful

By the early 18^th century, President George Washington, also realized, needing the President to administer all of the executive affairs of a country, is not practical, as the huge work load leads to complete disorganization. Not knowing, whether it was model after the Ming dynasty China, the US also established the US State Department, whose function is exactly the same to the administration branch of Ming dynasty China, administer by a Secretary of State, which is a post, exactly the same to Ming dynasty China’s Secretary of State. Within the US State department, it can again be split into many departments and then many sub department, subject to each department.

Ironically, the following dynasty of China, the Qing dynasty, dramatically decrease the power of all branches of the Executive Government and gave all authority to the office of the Emperor, as an attempt of the Emperor trying to secure its power. Other branches of the Federal government, frequently can only act as adviser, local government, also see dramatic decrease in authority. Thus, the office of the Emperor is now charge with nearly everything. The British ambassador to then China refer to the Qing dynasty, as a large ship with only one sailor, if the sailor become dizzy for only one second, the ship would start to sink and nothing the sailor can do later, could stop the sinking, which was exactly what we see happening in China, by late 18^th century. Thus, show us an important lesson to avoid an overly centralized government structure.

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Australia Government Structure needed to be upgraded, to resolve its current dysfunctional nature.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Chapter 3 Executive Government

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