Referendums are normally questions that are placed to the entire electorate to vote on. They are carried out when constitutional issues are contested or too weighty for representatives to handle on their own.
The plural form of referendum is "referendums" or "referenda."
They wanted initiatives and referendums because government should be more responsive to public opinion.
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There are 2 acceptable plurals: referendums or referenda
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Either referendums or referenda is acceptable.
The plural of refendum is referenda or referendums.
They are held because Australia is a democracy, and public opinion should decide yes or no on a given issue. In Western Australia we have had a long and tiresome debate (and 2 referendums) about daylight saving. In both referendums the public said no, but it went ahead anyway. We are about to have a third referendum on daylight saving. I don't understand why they are holding referendums that cost the public millions, when it seems to be already decided that the public's opinion will be ignored.
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Citizens voting directly on a proposed law