OPINION: A blank cheque to be filled in later by a Labor government and supposedly independent experts? This should be laughed out of the court of public opinion.
These papers were written in serial form back in 1788-89. They were written anonymously under the pen-name Publius. In fact, they were a three-man joint effort, the authors being Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
The former are today called federalists. And what the federalists had to do was to convince the voters of those newly formed United States that changing their constitutional arrangements was a good idea.So, that was what Hamilton, Jay and Madison set out: a balanced defence of the proposed new Constitution, first to the people of the state of New York and then to the other states. It amounted to an extensive explanation of the provisions. Its currency was details and arguments.
Well, let me put my cards on the table and say that I am opposed to the Albanese government’s proposed Voice constitutional amendment. I think this proposal is a bad one for a host of reasons. Any such body written into the Constitution will trigger much more judicial activism. This Voice will turn into a de facto third legislative body. There will be known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
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