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"There is no great separation of powers between the legislature and the executive any more. Parliament no longer scrutinises government, conducts independent inquiry, nor legislates on its own terms. In the past Senators were not so tightly bound by their parties, especially in regard to oversight and accountability." The Clerk of the Senate Harry Evans

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[The United States’] adversaries learned as long ago as the Korean War that decentralization would stymie America's overwhelming firepower, which was designed for concentrated armies, and provided a successful antidote for massive, expensive technology. All this is very well known. The real issue is why the U.S. makes the identical mistakes over and over again and never learns from its errors.