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The ABC unilaterally renaming our major cities and all the other in-your-face Aboriginal themes that now dominate our national life were imposed without any input whatsoever from the Australian people. I imagine we would need a plebiscite to change the Australian Flag but not, apparently, to diminish it
It is perfectly clear a law not submitted to voters cannot be approved by them and, therefore, cannot be presented to amend the Constitution. Here behold the Voice referendum question's sleight of hand: the short question Australians are being asked to endorse or reject is not -- repeat is not -- what would be added to the Constitution. Should 'Yes' succeed, it will prevail only until the High Court inevitably rules against it
Western Australia tried to become its own country more than once.
Bitter politics on The Spectator Australia | I have two mottoes. This first is ‘never look back’ and the second, and more important one in these troubled…
'We have a lot of work to do if there is to be any prospect of a successful referendum on the Voice to Parliament, which Indigenous people have put to us as the mode by which they want to be recognised in the Constitution. They have said they want a Voice. Now, we can debate whether it be a Voice to Parliament or a Voice to Parliament and government, or a Voice just about particular laws.' By Frank Brennan