The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australian (Let’s call it CCA) “was created to amalgamate the Australian colonies into a Commonwealth, and to set the rules by which the Commonwealth would be governed by the people as a self-governing colony. It was styled under the format of the Westminster Parliamentary system and clearly established the Parliament of the Commonwealth, and the Parliament of the States. It also clearly established the powers and responsibilities of both those parliaments. It allowed the provision for certain alterations of those powers, while specifically restricting alteration of certain others. Such alteration of the way in which the Commonwealth of Australia would be governed by the people was strictly limited to alteration by way of referendum of the population.
THERE IS NO OTHER MEANS BY WHICH OUR SYSTEM OF SELF-GOVERNMENT CAN BE LEGALLY ALTERED.”

So there is no way our Constitution can be changed without a vote of approval from The People, because when The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australian was written there were no local councils and the only was a local council can be added to our system is a vote of approval from the people.

The Courts of Australia have long held that council rates are a tax. Yet, under the Australian Constitution, the Parliaments of the States do not have the power of taxation.

John Winston Howard, Peter Howard Costello & ‘Commissioner for Taxation’ Michael Joseph Carmody all stated before the introduction of the infamous Goods and Services Tax that 

“Local government Council Rates will attract no GST because Council Rates ARE A TAX AND WE CAN’T TAX A TAX”.

Also, the High Court of Australia ruled that “State Governments couldn’t raise ANY TAX”, and because of this the ‘State Excise on Fuel, Tobacco & Alcohol’ was removed. It can be clearly seen that the authors of the Constitution were not allowing for any Parliament other than the Federal Parliament to impose a tax. Therefore, the only land rates tax that can be imposed within Australia, is one imposed by the Federal Parliament through the Commissioner for Taxation.Unless we receive a “Rates Notice” from the ‘Commissioner for Taxation it is INVALID and UNLAWFUL.In view of the above, this proposed action can only be withdrawn.

Since the ‘Local Government Act 1993′ did not exist at the time of Federation, there can be no continuance of that Act. Since the Parliament of the State of New South Wales did not have the power to impose a land rates tax under the Local Government Act of 1993 (or any other Act) at the time of Federation, there can be no continuance of that power.

Does this man we shouldn’t be paying land tax??

Question 3 from the referendum was: A Proposed Law; ‘To alter the Constitution to recognise local government.’ Do you approve of this alteration? [Annexure C]

The SPECIFIC (federal Referendum) proposal was:

(3) Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 1988…. 119A, “Each state shall provide for the ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTINUANCE of a system of local government, with local government bodies elected in accordance with the laws of the state, and empowered to administer, and MAKE BY-LAWS FOR, their respective areas IN ACCORDANCE with the laws of the state” (emphasis added).
It was recognized that the Parliaments of the States did not have the power to establish a third tier of government via ‘local government’ and an amendment to the Constitution was necessary for them to OBTAIN these powers.

If the Constitution had to be altered to allow for the ESTABLSIHMENT of ‘local government’, before there could be a CONTINUANCE of ‘local government from the time of federation, then it is clear that these powers did not exist at the time of the Federation of the States into a Commonwealth.

Ergo, if the Constitution had to be altered to allow for the “establishment and continuance” of ‘local government’ these powers did not exist at the time of federation OR SECTIONS 106 TO 108 OF THE CONSTITUTION WOULD HAVE APPLIED AND THE CONSTITUTION WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO BE ALTERED.

For the Constitution to be able to be changed, there must be a majority, (either for or against), in each state, and, a favourable majority must be returned in a majority of States.

The 1988 referendum was not carried. It obtained a majority in no State and an overall minority of 3,084,678 votes. [Annexure D]

No other conclusion can be derived from this result other than that Local government was not legally recognized by the people of Australia, who are the Government of Australia through their agents the Parliaments.

The Parliament of the State did not have these powers before the Referendum, and they were most certainly prohibited from having them after the Referendum.

Since the people do not wish to recognize ‘local government’, and since the Constitution does not recognize or grant the power to establish a third level of government, then under Section 109 of the Constitution it was illegal for the Parliament of New South Wales to enact the Local Government Act of 1993.

This post was taken from: http://wyckynews.com.au/conspiracy/ato-local-councils-are-illegal-entities/#

Check out the website for a lot more info on taxation and how Councils are illegal entities. SERIOUSLY GO READ IT !!

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