The fascination whit senate in English community and ROC is fascinating. You guys are literally emotional about it. Do you realise that 150 (when full which is rare) x 138 700 = 20 millions 805 thousand right? that is less than a few kilometre road repair. I know it can be annoying, yes it is an expense etc. but honestly it is not worth all the passion, hard feeling and frustration felt from this saga. They have no real power other than returning law to be written decently to avoid court challenging (which, by the way, is not a bad idea) 

Get over it, not worth it.  If abolished, it will be replaced by " professional" (meaning specialised firm of lawyer) to confirm law, which will be of course several thousand times more expensive. Law HAVE to be corrected and verified even if only for spelling. I don't think that most of those who "hate" senate realise job will have to be done anyway. It's cheap, keep it this way. cant afford law firm at several time the expense.