Thankfully the concession card debate is far easier to solve. While the root problem of independent state legislation is largely the same, the concession issue doesn't require a massive national overhaul. State governments don't need to be abolished quite yet, although that is an option worth debating.
The introduction of an Australian Student Card - as the Greens proposed during 2009 - would be one way of solving the dilemma. Better communication and relations between state powerbrokers would also go some way to providing a solution.
Simpler than that, this should be a fairly straightforward matter of equity and common sense.
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After all, we all live in the one country, contributing to the one national economy.
A student is a student is a student. Surely we can all see the logic in that?
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