Fake New Horizon
Herald Sun Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Altering the constitution to remove the Queen is a mere cut-and-paste exercise. Apart from a polite thank-you for her services, it involves little more than word processing.
That's why we should be suspicious of politicians who talk it up as some kind of new horizon.
The proposal to have a popularly elected president is madness. We already have a political order that is the envy of most in the world.
Australians are very aware that America has a president who has real power. If we elected president who was at odds with a prime minister, we would face a crisis of authority.
Labor theorists often attempt to reconstruct society as it if were a school science experiment.
Statehood is not an exact science. Only a fool or a saboteur would radically and unnecessarily alter our existing political structure.
Philip O'Carroll