Upsetting a substantial portion of liberal party faithful when unceremoniously removing Tony Abbott to steal Prime Ministership, Malcolm Turnbull’s second goal to establishing Australia as a republic now would overload his ego driven conquests.
In a public backdown from his republic crusade, Prime Minister Turnbull stated to media;
“Now is not the time for an Australian republic, we must wait until the Queen is no longer on the throne”.
“I’ve led a ‘yes’ case for a republic into a heroic defeat once. I’ve got no desire to do so again”.
When he lost the 1999 referendum, Mr Turnbull said the monarchist PM of the time John Howard had “broken our hearts”.
October 1st 1999 the government issued writs announcing polling day 6 November 1999 for a referendum vote seeking electorate approval;
To alter the Constitution to establish the Commonwealth of Australia as a republic with the Queen and Governor-General being replaced by a President appointed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Commonwealth Parliament
Not one state voted in favour.
Having established a power base under our current constitution by ignoring that constitution, the two party preferred system of government now wish to rewrite the rules without disclosure and expect your approval to do so.
Section 128 and section 51 of the Constitution specifies that alterations to itself cannot be made without a referendum. A bill containing the amendment must first be passed by both houses of parliament, in certain limited circumstances, by only one house of parliament. If the bill has only been passed in one house, the Governor General, under the ‘deadlock provision’ of section 128, then decide whether or not to submit the referendum to the people. By convention, this is done on the advice of the Prime Minister (who appointed the Governor General). Since the Prime Minister normally controls the House of Representatives, the effect of this convention is to make it virtually impossible for a referendum to be put to the people if approved by the Senate, but not the House.
Interestingly there have been 45 referendums conducted since federation, 7 being carried, 38 not carried indicating a mine field for dictators in parliament with the last referendum being the move to become a republic that was dumped by the people.
Loosing control of their political monopolised media highway of mainstream tabloid, radio and television, the power of Internet information now exposes political spin once accepted as gospel.
The crystal ball of caucus reflects an informed public is no longer comfortable with major parties. This requires damage control to maintain the status-quo duopoly government and the present constitution must go. Welcome the dawning of a well scripted republic constitution by spin doctoring politicians.
From the current coordinated media release of another republic referendum being supported by all states except WA, who are totally content with their untouchable corruption and police state comfort zone. There is no doubt Malcolm Turnbull convened clandestine discussion of a tailored republic echoing concern to the duopoly power base under attack from the flow of party faithful shifting support to alternative government out of their control, cannot establish public support, they do not have the numbers.
Fading public support of Malcolm Turnbull may see the Queen in office well after this Prime Minister has been removed.
We support CIR in principle but if we were to follow the California example we would be in more strife than Barack Obama. CIR was once the catchcry of the freedom movement but after 20 years of CIR in . eg, Sanfrancisco, we would end up with a total green, gay mother earth worshipping latte set dictating policy to the 70 per cent of the population who oppose their beliefs. Whoever has the money has the policies. Unfortunately CIR may have withered on the vine. In Queensland we would be in a more commanding position if we reintroduced the Upper House.
– thank you for your constructive comment, Editor
Before we can have a republic we need answers to these questions:
1. What form will the Republic take? Define it in detail so that we know whether we want it.
2. How will we form a Republic? Do these proponents for a Republic have a plan?
RestoreAustralia Party has a Vision and a Plan. It all begins with Citizens Initiated Referendums. Without CIR we cannot hope to bring about the changes needed to create a Republic of the people, by the people, for the people.
POWER FOR YOU TO HAVE A SAY IN GOVERNMENT
Citizens Initiated Referendums (CIR) put the power into your hands to have a say in government.
If you are tired of getting more of the same each time we vote in a government, no matter which side of the fence gets into power….then Vote for the RestoreAustralia Party (RAP).
We already have a Bill written to submit to Parliament to amend Section 128 of the Constitution to put the power into the hands of We the People to start referendums….Citizens Initiated Referendums.
With the power to start referendums all Australians could unite to start changing the way we are governed. We could start by making our politicians accountable to We the People.
Tired of our government selling our land to foreign countries?
With CIR you could vote on whether you approve or not.
Do you want to stop the halal scam?
CIR would give YOU a voice to say NO!
Would you like to rebuild our economy by encouraging manufacturing here?
CIR would give you a voice to say YES!
Do you want to ban islam from Australia?
Your voice will count when you vote in a Citizens Initiated Referendum.
I am standing as a Senate Candidate for Queensland. To do that, I have decided to form the RestoreAustralia Party (RAP). We will give our preferences only to other patriot candidates. We will never support those who do not support Australia with all their hearts.
Make your vote count. Vote for patriots only.