The constitutional status, rights and obligations of Australian citizens are by no means clear, despite recent legislative reforms. AAP/Dan Peled Recent national security proposals and Australia’s ...
The Prime Minister, who appeared on Osborne's Bush Deep show in July, said Australia could assume control of New Zealand under the Constitution.
Bringing about an Australian republic and a truly independent Australian nation is not easy. Despite polls indicating that most people want the change, politicians are wary of the issue, amendments to ...
In 2017, 250 First Nations people gathered together from across Australia to draft and sign the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Uluru Statement proposed a First Nations Voice to Parliament, a body ...
JURIST Guest Columnist Anne Twomey of the University of Sydney Law School says that there are considerable challenges to passing the proposed changes to the Australian Constitution, in large part ...
The Australian Labor government’s official release of its wording for a proposed referendum on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament has caused consternation among many ...
David Hume and George Williams wrote a column last Friday that pointed to the Voice referendum and then argued that it is too hard and too politically risky to change Australia’s Constitution. The ...
“I've never said Australia is a racist country but there are things in the constitution, right now as it stands, that leaves room for people to discriminate against race,” Goodes said. The Sydney ...
A referendum due later this year would create an Indigenous body known as the Voice to address Parliament on Indigenous issues. Australians marked the 235th anniversary of British colonization ...