STATES provides the path to a logical, secure
and understandable Australian republic
Thereafter and bilaterally STATES proffers a
Two bodies of people may be registered from
One from the nation:
Which currently votes
One from the states
(state-in-turn): Which (s)elects the
“Highest Office” incumbent (HoS)
Thus Australia’s Constitutional
Monarchy may become a
People of the States
might be represented on a “Council of States” to administer the selection
in-turn of the Head-of-State and Governors of their States… A “Council of
States” perhaps quite apart from undue influence or jurisdiction of the
Australian or state parliaments.
As per
1998’s Constitutional-Convention-agenda-suggested Model
A
of the Republic of the
Commonwealth of
States
Head-of-State Selection (STATES) Republic Model
“STATES” is a model of a Republic of the Commonwealth of Australia (NOT
a model for the *head-of-state) mindful that referendum acceptance “in a majority of the states” by
“a majority of the electors” is required to allow constitutional change to
our executive and legislative governance.
Annulling-cum-replacing
British monarchy… And having Australians appoint Australians as heads-of-state are
the two-only basic requirements for
Simply,
Thereafter Australian
governance below the Prime Minister would need little if any adjustment for
Perhaps there is preconception or poetic justice
in “STATES” as in 1901 states ceded national control to
STATES defines-for-referendum
the shell of a logical and secure Australian republic and allows constitutional
detail to be decided before a second referendum. (including
ongoing amendment to
All such
constitutional change to receive referendum approval from the people of the
nation… And the people of the nation’s states.
It is believed STATES can be prescribed as
being strictly a-political.
Considered furtherance of 1901’s federation STATES is conducive to
federal parliament… Minimalist in change to the status quo… And easily defined
as follows.
To
found a watertight Australian republic create the position of “Highest-Office”...
Retain the successful parliamentary-status quo system and, using predetermined,
gazetted and sequential turns, have states-in-turn appoint
Australian-“Highest-Office” incumbents as heads-of-state for set, contiguous
and repetitive 5-year periods.
a STATES republic...
(1) Creates a statutory commonwealth post of “Highest-Office”
having reserve powers.
(2) Replaces the British monarch with the head-of-state
position “Highest-Office”.
(3) Requires states-in-turn to appoint “Highest-Office”
incumbent for five-year periods.
A referendum on the
above - Conditional on the below
(4) Head-of-state and the prime minister share and administer
codified powers.
(5) Federal parliament/State-in-turn structured head-of-state
appointment methods.
(6) Prime
minister/head-of-state have codified powers… They may dismiss each other.
(7) Preserve federation’s constitutional equality of states
in an Australian republic.
(8) Secure a republic within Australia’s
founding-cum-federation constitution.
(9) Produce a status quo federation-style republic NOT
a presidential-style republic.
(10) Devise “A provision allowing ongoing consideration of
constitutional change”.
“Highest-Office”
is a statutory posting-say-Advocate of the Commonwealth of Australia.
(or, or also, or perhaps – President of
the Commonwealth of Australia)
Oliver
Cromwell was Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
from 1653-1658... The first English speaking republic in the world.
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Model B .... of the ....
Constitutional Convention 1998 agenda booklet .... says
“Head of State has
significant powers, as does the leader of the government - eg: France”
Thus STATES creates the post of “Highest-Office”
as Australia’s quasi royal-cum-presidential shared-executive position.
States’ Head-of-State Selection (STATES) Republic
is a unique stand-alone republic which requires an Australian-born citizen to be appointed to the Australian
Commonwealth statutory position of “Highest-Office” as head-of-state… Having a
title as yet to be determined.
To Australians its Australian-born incumbent is Australia’s head-of-state.
With shared-executive powers vested in the
position of “Highest-Office” Australia’s states provide in-turn the incumbents,
deemed to be heads-of-state, to administer same… A head-of-state selected to
this office by the Provider-State of
the nation can never consider himself/herself to be more powerful or senior to
the popular-cum-parliament-party-elected leader of the government… Nor foster
power against that prime minister.
First STATES
requires sovereignty to be bestowed upon Australia’s people and for Australia’s
people simultaneously to empower and require Australia’s states to in-turn
appoint Australian-born Australians as Australia’s heads-of-state to the
unnamed-position of “Highest-Office”.
“
It is in a federation or geographic sense a state’s turn to
appoint a head-of-state is taken: At which time all such appointment and any
other pertinent arrangement or process is relative to that particular state.
It is in a personal and
demographic sense that people of their born, chosen or arrival-state
participate in any appreciation or process determined to appoint a
head-of-state… Thus any Australian could be republic-registered in any state and
resident in any other… or abroad.
ANY Australian-born citizen is
eligible to become head-of-state… ALL Australian citizens may
in-turn-participate in whatever process is decided to appoint the
head-of-state.
On reaching adulthood each citizen may enroll on
an Elect-State-Of-Choice role…
Enrolment is entirely optional and may be effected at any time during an
individual’s life… Once enrolled a citizen’s Elect-State-Of-Choice enrolment is regarded as permanent…
Alteration being conditional.
Any Australian-born citizen may have his/her
name placed on any Elect-State-Of-Choice
list as available as head-of-state.
A
transparent, once-only, detailed, gazetted and nationally televised lottery
decides a sequence-of-states-as-balloted-list
as the established order in which Australian states shall provide Australia’s
head-of-state.
These
gazetted details are repetitive on a forever basis… In applying that sequence
states will be referred to by the logical terminologies Provider-State, Elect-State
and Standing-States.
STATES encourages improvement to the head-of-state selection
process… With states constitutionally
secure as head-of-state-providers, any parliament may propose
alteration to any selection method to be put to referendum at an opportune time
after endorsement by all parliaments.
(This provision to alter the constitution will consequently result
in calling of constitutional referenda being no longer the sole right of an
individual.)
Approved at referendum
Australia’s states-in-turn appoint its heads-of-state… STATES does not propose
any specific process but suggests each state may use its own individual method
of head-of-state appointment or
all may agree or be required
to use the same method. This flexibility is seen as a strength in improving the
republic.
In
whichever case methods are to be approved by all states, federal parliament and
by the people of the states and Australia at referendum.
“Highest-Office” is not a position to be filled
with a view to political correctness, appeasement, sporting popularity or the
like… Competence is paramount… Method of selection must be dedicated to ensuring
worthiness of qualification criteria for appointment to this important
position.
Each Elect-State
has ultimate say in appointing its head-of-state-in-turn… But that Elect-State is to liaise with a
permanent federal parliament department to ensure protocol, procedure and
requirement are maintained… And with the Provider-State
and Standing-States to maintain the
spirit, integrity and betterment of the process.
Heads-of-state
shall be appointed for a defined and an absolute term of five years.
Heads-of-state
shall reside at Government House, Canberra during his or her term of office.
On a set day every five-years at a regular
location some suitably qualified person or the retiring head-of-state shall
swear-in the Elect-State’s
head-of-state appointee… Nationally televised.
This is a
ceremonial procedure only and is obviated by the pre-selected head-of-state
acceding to authority-#.
At the end
of a Provider-State’s head-of-state
term the Elect-State’s head-of-state
nominee succeeds automatically.
#-People and all states and all states’ and
federal agencies are to legally acknowledge the Elect-State’s preordained appointee’s authority.
Each state
retains its rights, parliaments and management of local affairs… Each to
experience minimal alteration to its relationship with federal parliament… Each
must consider adjustment of its legal standing… Each could perhaps become a
Commonwealth.
With similar-to-the-current constitutional layout
STATES provides separation of legislative, executive and judicial power under
the constitution… plus… a
solid base of nationwide support for the “Highest-Office” and its
incumbent-heads-of-state because of states’ individual and joint involvement in
the republic, federation, constitution and upper house.
In a constitutional crisis the states, as the
republic’s foundation, and the people, as one sovereign Australian population,
automatically provide a nationwide umbrella-of-the-states
for the head-of-state no matter which state is the Provider-State.
States provide the
people-backbone of that support which is reinforced by the demographically
mingled Elect-State people throughout
Pray tell… What is the “umbrella” of a head-of-state selected by
parliamentary process or by politicised direct election?
Federal Parliament, the Army, Unions, Students, Boy Scouts?
Alternately,
in a national crisis, people of the states may decide against a head-of-state’s
decision… As the appointment method was accepted at referendum the emotion of
the issue would be confined to the constitution
versus the government-of-the-day.
STATES allows both the head-of-state and the
prime minister to, if need be, each remove the other… STATES to accommodate
whatever constitutional requirement necessary in constitutional terms and ratified
by general consensus.
However
STATES maintains the prime minister selected by federal
parliamentary-cum-political-party process holds a “real” job.
Being selected by State Head-of-State Selection
(STATES) process so too does the head-of-state hold the “real” job of
reserve powers.
Thus the
power and process of constitutional-dismissal should be “real” and available to
both positions.
People of the states, as a state, each in-turn
provide the head-of-state…
People of the nation, via federal government provide the prime minister.
Separate
bodies of Australians for executive and legislative appointment.
Thus it is suggested that… Constitutional layout,
similar to the separation of legislative, executive and judicial power under the current
constitution, exists for executive and legislative appointment under a STATES system and thus “real” balanced governance is evinced.
Zealously
safeguarding the constitution
A national
figurehead the federation-style head-of-state holds a position comparable with
Thus STATES
supplies a republic with just one leader… The prime minister and popular
party-elected leader of the government.
Potential
rivalry between the federation-style head-of-state and the prime minister is
seen as restricted and improbable.
Separation
of powers and duties is mostly defined and/or codified.
STATES is a
unique-to-the-world republic
which can be seen to provide a republic system modelled on federation that will
outlast any monarchy or republic of the world.
A simple
and unwavering system enabling people of Australia’s states to understand
and/or be part of a head-of-state appointment process STATES virtually provides
certainty of approval by ALL AUSTRALIA’S STATES.
STATES is a
model designed to win full referendum support of
Valuing and
involving
As a Republic of the
Commonwealth of
What
Such is a prime requisite
of a secure republic
Such is a
STATES republic
Yogi
Marriott Yogi
The concept,
preparation and this presentation of STATES is entirely the work of Yogi
Marriott
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Yogi
Marriott
STATES is in accordance with
STATES applies this sharing of power to our
current
The prime
minister is elected per current process
.
Shared-executive-positions
titles might refer to
Governor-General
of the Commonwealth of
or
President
of the Commonwealth of
President and Prime Minister of
or
Premier and Prime Minister of
These
suggested titles are just that - Suggested – They are offered here as
indicative of the relative positions of the HoS and the PM.
STATES sees the HoS as
STATES sees the PRIME MINISTER as Australia’s
LEADER
STATES is modelled on
But must STATES be likened to any system of
the world it would be
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There is not in
the world and never in history has there been a republic system quite suitable
for an Australian republic.
As for
“STATES” replaces only the British monarchy.
STATES affords
Australians vision of the future after a YES vote at referendum... A future
almost identical with what exists in
Many issues have
been raised during debate about becoming republic... Issues such as The
Dismissal Procedure, Definition of Powers, Acknowledgment of Original
Occupancy, A Preamble and more listed in that Con-Con Communiqué.
STATES
allows for discussion and resolution of these issues and any others after a
republic has been accepted… For STATES allows revision and alteration of the
republic system itself provided federal and all state parliaments recommend
change to the people… And
Integral with
STATES, calling constitutional referenda is no longer the sole prerogative of
the leader of the ruling political party.
A States
Head-of-State Selection republic is commended to all.
See – Writer’s Profile
Polls
since 1999 show some 10% of Australians favour retention of the monarchy and
therefore Royalists, “it ain’t broke/don’t fix it” people and the like are
urged to consider a republic such as STATES.
Of
course continue to support the monarchy… But consider as urgent the need of
acceptable alternate… For the next referendum will bring a republic.
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And
since this was written “it” has been “broke” and does need “fixin” – So, if a
Royalist, make STATES your second
choice... Your alternative.
STATES in its embryonic form was envisaged some time before 1998’s Canberra
Constitutional Convention but not put forward because the writer considered
such a model for a republic would abound in the minds of Australians.
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This 72-year-old (born
1931) is totally content with his years of monarchy but concedes progress is
soon to end that era.
However progress to a
republic based on that contentment which in itself is a progressive format for
a republic is indeed considered progress for
Yogi.
Revisited
Website Uploaded 2003
STATES
Devised 1998
Conceived Mid-1990s