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Yeah, I am familiar with the Australian constitution (being a citizen). I don't get much further than Section 25 before the disgust sets in, and section 44 is
by fit2rule 9y ago
Yeah, I am familiar with the Australian constitution (being a citizen). I don't get much further than Section 25 before the disgust sets in, and section 44 is a joke. (If you're a whitey - otherwise its just plain sad.)
Its Section 4 - giving only the Queen the right to select the Australian Governor General - that is the real issue, though.
And my local constitutional lawyer (a quite famous one, whom I know through a family connection), tells me "its a legal grey area with no finite position possible - sure, we have sovereignty on paper, but we are still governed by the Queen in practice..."
- jacques_chester 9y agoI'm an Australian citizen too. The Constitution is interpreted under Constitutional law, as stated by the High Court. It can only be applied in the context of that legal meaning, which is not the same as a reading by an interested but untrained citizen. > we are still governed by the Queen in practice... I feel as though you may be misquoting your famous family connection. In a constitutional crisis, do you sincerely think the High Court would say "oops, I guess we're the personal colony of a Queen who suddenly upended hundreds of years of Parliamentary Supremacy somehow"? If you know a bookie who'll lay odds, I'll happily take this wager.
- fit2rule 9y agoAll I know is when the UK barks, we come running. Do you wanna debate that we're in the Coalition, currently destroying the middle east, willingly, for example? >we're the personal colony of a Queen who suddenly upended hundreds of years of Parliamentary We're locally sovereign, but not internationally sovereign. Even our own courts have admitted this - but of course, its not for the Australian people to know this, or even have any power to do anything about it. After all, we're all just struggling to be able to afford cool shit.
- jacques_chester 9y ago> All I know is when the UK barks, we come running. 'K' and 'S' are about 50 years apart on my keyboard. > We're locally sovereign, but not internationally sovereign. The majority in Sue v Hill conclusively ruled that Britain is a foreign power. It has not been overturned and it never will. There is no Imperial Crown. There are Crowns, which are legally distinct. The Prime Minister of the UK cannot advise the Crown in right of the Commonwealth of Australia; an Australian Prime Minister cannot advise the Crown in right of the United Kingdom; the Premier of New South Wales cannot advise the Crown in right of Victoria and so on. Again: I will happily lay money on this question.