> Regional Councils on each and every issue defeats one of the key
> purposes of the plan to abolish states: fewer politicians! 
> I recommend

> Each HR (House of Representatives) Division to elect one MHR (Member
> House of Representatives).  Divisions to be of equal size in voter
> population as far as is practicable.

> Each Region to elect one Senator.  Regions not necessarily of equal size
> in population.  Up to approximately 100 Regions in Australia.

> One council of ten or twelve elected members (perhaps with a directly
> elected mayor) for each Region.

> Regions to be worked out on basis of community.  Sure, some regions will
> be a consolidation of small outback towns and large sparsely populated
> areas.  This is inevitable, and is true of current local govt regions.

> There would seem to be some merit in having the Senator for a region
> sitting ex-officio on the Local or Regional Council, but I wouldn't want
> to see a situation where the Senator was chosen by the Local Council or
> an elected member of the council.  This takes us back to the days of the
> State upper houses being chosen by the lower house (and various other
> similarly undemocratic arrangements).