An Australian flag that recognises the First Nations
I am currently reading a book about the wartime Prime Minster John Curtin.It’s very interesting, and touches on topics of interest of the times – like the vote for Western Australia to secede from the Commonwealth in 1933.John Curtin’s War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia, by John Edwardshttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074PHRJ9X
I read an interesting fact this afternoon. The Statute of Westminster only applies to three nations today: the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. So if we need to change the rules of succession for Australia to democratise the divisible Crown of Australia, we might be able to do that through an agreement with Canada and … Read more
Last year the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs of the House of Representatives completed an inquiry into the way that referenda are conducted in Australia. One of the main topics was to review the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 and take submissions on how this could be modernised. The website for the … Read more