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The Australian government can 'advise' the sovereign all they want - but the sovereign still has the right to ignore that advice. And, it frequently does ignor
by boffinAudio 3y ago
The Australian government can 'advise' the sovereign all they want - but the sovereign still has the right to ignore that advice.
And, it frequently does ignore that advise - see for example the cases of Witnesses J, K, L, M .. whose trials in a Secret Star Court received no civilian oversight on the basis of the national security regime ..
Convention and legality are two entirely different things. Australians cannot call for an investigation into their own military - they can only ask that Parliament advise the sovereign to allow it.
> Australian governments when they use this kind of legislation to hide responsibility.
.. use the 'cover' of the Sovereign to do so.