I am also Australian and I think we do not need to change our constitution. Would you trust current politicians to rewrite your constitution? We are not gauranteed that things like the right of free speech or free assembly, habeus corpus and other inalienable rights gauranteed by the current constitution will be imported into the new. We haven't even been given a say in how we want our new republic to be. Our choice is do you want a republic with the president elected by the parliment. Not, do you want a republic or not. This is why australia will vote against being a republic, because the people want to have our say in the way our country will be run in the future.
One thing to keep in mind is that Australian people have not asked nor voted for this form of cencorship. The only reason this has come about is because one old frigid fart holds the power in our upper house. As a result of this the government have had to kowtow to his b*llshit internet cencorship laws in order to get their new tax system in. WE DONT WANT THIS
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I am also Australian and I think we do not need to change our constitution. Would you trust current politicians to rewrite your constitution? We are not gauranteed that things like the right of free speech or free assembly, habeus corpus and other inalienable rights gauranteed by the current constitution will be imported into the new. We haven't even been given a say in how we want our new republic to be. Our choice is do you want a republic with the president elected by the parliment. Not, do you want a republic or not. This is why australia will vote against being a republic, because the people want to have our say in the way our country will be run in the future.
One thing to keep in mind is that Australian people have not asked nor voted for this form of cencorship. The only reason this has come about is because one old frigid fart holds the power in our upper house. As a result of this the government have had to kowtow to his b*llshit internet cencorship laws in order to get their new tax system in. WE DONT WANT THIS