Were today Sir Henry Parkes and his fellow founding fathers
considering converting
A republic would be born through furtherance of their federation
concept.
Well pleased in their original devising they would make just one
amendment - Replacing their in-common British sovereign with a federation style head-of-state to
similarly service their six disparate states
now well served under a centralised parliamentary system.
They would know national consensus in a head-of-state was of utmost
concern... They would fully appreciate that politics is for politicians.
Thus mindful of history ancient and modern they would make no sole
instrumentality or individual supreme and would insist upon constitutional
equality between their states: That each state had equal voice regarding the
initial and most important question of all... The appointment of the republic’s
head-of-state.
They would view separation of legislative
and executive appointment as
of equal importance to separation of legislative, executive and judicial power.
As equals at federation they would agree each state participated
equally in the provision of heads-of-state... Thus retaining equality between
the states... And most importantly unity across
They would structure a republic with a people’s head-of-state
issuing in-turn from each state of the federation... A prime minister coming
from amongst the elected politicians… And a constitution sharing executive and
other powers between those two.
Also they would recognise that a STATES republic proffers
these principles and aspirations.
Yogi
STATES
is a republic model which defines a republic... The position of head-of-state
to be filled by an individual to be appointed.
The appointment
method is another matter.
1999’s referendum
model (and those at the 1998 Constitutional Convention) was defined by the
manner in which a head-of-state was to be selected.
Ergo... A
president model.
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Yogi Marriott
A boy in the 1930s my grandmothers introduced me
to the spirit of
Federation…
Which then consumed the nation.
And to
Sir Henry Parkes.
Living in the centre of
Cobar with a maternal grandmother resident at
Travelling to-and-fro by road or rail past Sir Henry’s family’s burial plot,
Sydney-side on the
Always was mentioned the importance of federation…
Always was the background unbounded loyalty to
Throughout my life Sir
Henry’s burial site has been remembered by me and numerous times and again I
have visited his plot.
Sir Henry died not long
before federation but the terms of federation which included the institution of
the senate as the house of the states illustrated his and federation’s founders
thinking and beliefs.
It is undoubted they
considered each of their colonies as important to the success and security of
the nation as any other and, had they been founding a republic, would have
instituted a STATES-type republic.
A States Head-of-State
Selection (STATES) republic is such a republic.
Yogi.
Revisited
Website Uploaded 2003
STATES
Devised 1998
Conceived Mid-1990s