THERE has been much talk recently about the Government proposing new taxes — property taxes, water charges, etc. It is right that these things are rigorously debated in public before they are implemented.

FOR a democratic republic like our own, the highest expression of the will of the people is when we vote in a referendum. In 1995, we voted by a slender majority to allow people who had lived apart for four years, and who had no chance of reconciling, to seek a divorce.