The Howard Government is seemingly repudiating the Liberal Party’s traditional defence of states’ rights, writes Joseph Poprzeczny.Federal Treasurer Peter Costello apparently plans to transform Australia’s six sovereign states into mere spending departments for Canberra. But a more likely outcome of his centralist blueprint is that it will be the precursor of the break-up of Australia as we know it.Yet commentaries on the Costello centralisation plan (being marketed as “new federalism”) have fai…
