Appendix 3E, titled Recent Media Reports Calling for the Abolition of State Governments, provides a compilation of over 500 media report extracts (including letters to newspapers), dated from 1986 until July 2006, that contain calls for the abolition of State governments or closely related reforms;

Table 4A-1 in Appendix 4A, titled Proposals to Transfer the Education Function, or Part Thereof, from the States and Territories to the Commonwealth, provides extracts from over 50 media reports, dated from 2002 until 2006, that contain calls for a national education system under Commonwealth control or closely related reforms;

Table 4B-1 in Appendix 4B, titled Proposals to Transfer the Health Function, or Part Thereof, from the States and Territories to the Commonwealth, provides extracts of over 190 media reports, dated from 1996 to 2006, that describe support for a national health system under Commonwealth control or closely related reforms;

Table 4D-1 in Appendix 4D, titled Proposals to Transfer Law, Order and Safety Functions from the States and Territories to the Commonwealth, provides extracts of over 80 media reports dated from 1984 to 2006 that describe support for national approaches to at least some element of law, order and safety, including proposals for national laws, a national court system, a national legal profession, national policing efforts, and an Australia-wide approach to domestic national security.

Table 4E-1 in Appendix 4E, titled Proposals to Transfer Multiple Functions from the States and Territories to the Commonwealth, provides extracts of over 100 media reports, dated from 1994 to 2006, that describe support for national control of multiple government functions, including proposals to transfer functions from State and Territory governments to the Commonwealth government, and calls for national approaches in functional areas besides the areas of education, health, and law, order and safety that are addressed in Appendices 4A, 4B and 4D.

A democratic constitution should ... abolish the states and introduce strong regional-local government.

At a meeting of the Tennyson Farmers' Association, held at Tennyson-hall on June 28, for the purpose of discussing the reform question, it was moved by Mr. T. Watson and seconded by Mr. T. O'Brien, and carried unanimously:- "That, in the opinion of the association, the time had now arrived when we should have unification of Australian interests and abolition of state Parliaments, as we think one Parliament with the assistance of the municipal councils, quite sufficient to legislate for Austnlia. We also favour the increasing of the number of federal members to twice as many as we have got at the present time. We would then have a member for every 14,000 approximate; also the leasing of   railways and the abolition of the free-pass system, together with the consolidating of the national debt of Australia."

The principal proposals on   the agenda paper are as follows -Trades Union Act amendment ..., national system of water conservation and irrigation, ... abolition of State Parliaments in favour of liberal federal representation and comprehensive local government, ...

The fighting general platform includes the abolition of State Parliaments and Legislative Councils; abolition of the offices of Governors in Australia; one Parliament of 150 members in the Commonwealth, and as the population increases at every six years so shall the representation increase ...

See last paragraph, under sub-heading 'CANON ROBERTSON'S SERMON'

At a special meeting of the Abolition of State Parliaments League, a council of 12 was formed to work for the "abolishing of State Parliaments and the vesting of more powers in local government bodies, similar to the system of government in London and Glasgow."

Note that the One Parliamant for Australia (OPFA) political party referred to in the 8 May and 6 July 1943 articles as above is described by Paul Davey on pages 47-48 of his book Politics in the Blood: The Anthonys of Richmond (UNSW Press, Sydney 2008).  Davey writes that "J. W. Anderson ... formed a movement called One Parliament for Australia (OPFA), the underlying objective of which was to abolish the states."