In Switzerland, they are holding referendums right now. These have been mostly initiated by citizens.
Two are federal, 6 are canton level, and in Geneva there are two commune ones, bringing the total to ten.
One Canton referendum caught my attention. The proposal is to offer rebates to people who buy new cars with better than 120 g CO2/km, no effect on those in the range 120 to 250, and an extra levy to those that produce greater than 250.
How refreshing it would be to vote for a referendum such as this - that has potential to provide real incentives for people to reduce their carbon emissions.
Currently in Australia, such a referendum is impossible. For healthy democracy I think we need the ability to hold referendums like this now.
So we need a referendum to change the Australian Constitution to make citizen-initiated referendums possible.
Some photos of billboards for the referendums
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