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		<title>By: Peta</title>
		<link>http://barrdear.com/john/2008/04/10/non-geographic-constituencies/comment-page-1/#comment-477</link>
		<dc:creator>Peta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John

Come home to Australia and run for PM! I PROMISE I WILL VOTE FOR YOU!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John</p>
<p>Come home to Australia and run for PM! I PROMISE I WILL VOTE FOR YOU!</p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
		<link>http://barrdear.com/john/2008/04/10/non-geographic-constituencies/comment-page-1/#comment-157</link>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are precedents?!  I had no idea ...

Okay, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia tells me&lt;/a&gt; that in Hong Kong, 30 of the 60 parliamentary seats are from &quot;functional constituencies,&quot; which at first glance sounds like what I&#039;m talking about.  But it also seems as if playing a role in those functional constituencies is &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to any membership in a geographical constituency; that six of the seats come from a single 800-person group; and that in some of the constituencies, corporations get a vote.  That sort of distortion of individual voting rights isn&#039;t what I&#039;m up for at all.

I want each person to only be allowed to belong to one constituency only and that a constituency would need to pass a certain threshold of members before they could have a representative in parliament.  e.g. No member of the parliament could be the elected representative for fewer than 80,000 voting residents.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are precedents?!  I had no idea &#8230;</p>
<p>Okay, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia tells me</a> that in Hong Kong, 30 of the 60 parliamentary seats are from &#8220;functional constituencies,&#8221; which at first glance sounds like what I&#8217;m talking about.  But it also seems as if playing a role in those functional constituencies is <em>in addition</em> to any membership in a geographical constituency; that six of the seats come from a single 800-person group; and that in some of the constituencies, corporations get a vote.  That sort of distortion of individual voting rights isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;m up for at all.</p>
<p>I want each person to only be allowed to belong to one constituency only and that a constituency would need to pass a certain threshold of members before they could have a representative in parliament.  e.g. No member of the parliament could be the elected representative for fewer than 80,000 voting residents.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam Burke</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam Burke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m pretty sympathetic to this, but the historic and contemporary examples are not particularly glorious - say Old Sarum or the professional constituencies of Hong Kong, both designed to enforce a non-democratic, non-republican veto ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m pretty sympathetic to this, but the historic and contemporary examples are not particularly glorious &#8211; say Old Sarum or the professional constituencies of Hong Kong, both designed to enforce a non-democratic, non-republican veto &#8230;</p>
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