But neither has gone so far as to withdraw from the federal executive.
Blair was born in Columbia, Maryland, the son of a federal executive and a schoolteacher.
He was chairman of the central executive of the Country Party in 1974, having been a member of the federal executive since 1972.
However, those scholars acknowledge that a constitutional amendment would be required to eliminate the federal unitary executive.
But the federal executive took measures to check the foreign influx, and National Action is thought to be in a tailspin.
The federal executive is authorized to use force to compel non-compliant states to observe the law.
This policy was overturned by a meeting of the Labor Party's federal executive.
Under ALP rules the federal executive had responsibility for party policy when the party's national conference was out of session.
Mr. Hagans characterized his actions as the routine work of a federal executive dealing with contractors.
The best way to preserve ethnic autonomy is to create a federal structure with strong regional powers and a relatively weak federal executive.