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Constitutional amendments are very difficult to get up, the majority of attempts have failed. If either major political party opposes an amendment, it's essenti
by jacques_chester 8y ago
Constitutional amendments are very difficult to get up, the majority of attempts have failed. If either major political party opposes an amendment, it's essentially dead in the water. On current form the Coalition would drumbeat against it and Labor would do the bigger-badder-tougher-meanie-poo dance to try and neutralise the wedge.
Consider the fact that we are in the middle of an ongoing constitutional crisis, for which the political class knows an amendment is the only effective solution, but nobody in either major party wants to even try.
- nailer 8y agoI'm Australian but left in 2008 (for what should be obvious reasons as we're discussing this on HN). What's the constitutional crisis?
- chottocharaii 8y agoI believe your parent is referring to the 'citizenship saga'. This isn't a constitutional crisis in the 'dismissal' sense. It's just the operation of s44 of the constitution causing a headache for parliament. Its been found that many of the parliamentarians are dual citizens, which is forbidden, and their seats in parliament have been nullified by the high court.