Getting rid of things like

like "how to vote" cards at polling booths and "stamp duty" on houses might just be a good idea. They would both save money. 

Those "how to vote" cards are an extraordinary waste of paper and ink and the energy required to print them. There are far too many people involved in standing outside polling stations and harassing people as they go in. Some people were refusing to take the cards but many others were taking one from each party - presumably in order to try and keep their voting intentions entirely private. That what they do in the privacy of that little enclosed space is their own affair seems to go unnoticed as they endeavour to do "the right thing". 

I have always, and I mean always, refused to take any cards. I know how I intend to vote before I leave home. It is my duty to know that. If people do not know how they intend to vote on the day they should know - or perhaps mark the paper with "none of the above" or "I don't know"? 

The legislation could be changed to allow one "how to vote" card in each carrel. Perhaps we could do away with the iniquitous "compulsory preferential voting" system?  I have said elsewhere that, if voting is "compulsory" then we must do away with the compulsion to preference. 

And perhaps the money saved there could go towards being rid of the excessively high amount of "stamp duty" we pay on transferring property in this state. I know it is a tax the government depends on it but it is a tax which makes little sense. Paying $32,500 in "stamp duty" on a $650,000 piece of land alone is more than enough to prevent some from buying anything at all. The tax is enough to stop some selling and downsizing so that others can benefit.  This is a tax which was once used to actually do the paper work involved and ensure that our Torrens Title system actually worked in the way it was intended to work. It has long since become a "nice little money earner" for the government...along with so many other things. If they actually put the money into housing for those who need it I would not mind so much. 

Let's be rid of those "how to vote" cards and put the money saved into housing for those who need it.