Barnaby Joyce's proposal to split Senate into smaller units to give Indigenous people a voice

By Barnaby Joyce
July 16 2019 - 7:00am
Barnaby Joyce is a former Senator for Queensland. Piture: Glen McCurtayne
Barnaby Joyce is a former Senator for Queensland. Piture: Glen McCurtayne

If New York can get by with two senators then why does Adelaide need 11? The idea that every state gets 12 senators is just an anomaly from the fact that, when designing Australia's senate based on the United States model, our nation did not have enough states so we allocated more senators per state.

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