Some Letters-to-the-Editor

(4 Short Letters)

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A decision to become republic should not nullify the constitutional requirement of

in a majority of the states”

 by

a majority of the electors”

from applying to the on-going appointment of heads-of-state or to any future change to the Constitution of Australia

When again Australia addresses the question of becoming republic it should be appreciated the initial constitutional changes needed are…

FIRST… Constitutional change from a constitutional monarchy: To a republic…

How should a republic be structured?

SECOND... Constitutional change from the inherent right of the Queen: To appointment by Australia of a head-of-state…

How should a head-of-state be chosen?

The second must not implicitly be the means-to-the-end.

Given at referendum a question with even slight ambiguity the integrity of the second (the selection method) might be subjugated by a desire for the first (a republic).

Such an outcome could have states surrendering constitutional equality to turn republic… Or be seen as constitutional change gained by way of stealth.

And 1999’s republic referendum question was therein suspect indeed

Thus any future republic referendum model should feature a constitutionally compliant heads-of-state selection method… A method which gives all states constitutional equality in the heads-of-state selection process.

Australia’s “Outlying States” may otherwise be relegated to sub-branch status of a republic Australia… And thereafter as poor relations be subjected to the distant process of heads-of-state drawn from Australia’s population a-plenty “Golden Triangle”.

Constitutionally “Outlying States” now have equality in constitutional matters… Such as providing heads-of-state for a future republic Australia… Let’s keep it that way.

                            Yogi

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Yogi Marriott                                             CLAREMONT   7011   HOBART                                               April   2001

 

 

 

 

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OZMINSTER

(A Letter-to-the-Editor)

A majority of Australians considers Britain’s monarch has become redundant as our head-of-state.

Calls for popular election of a “president”, a “leader”, a “sovereign”, even a “sovereign leader” as an Australian head-of-state of a presidential republic are persistent… Essentially to rid Australia of the British monarchy.

But a president means the introduction of a presidential regime which will rid Australia also of the Westminster system of parliament… A system Australia must never forsake.

Thus we should remove only the monarchy… And to keep the system let’s deem our six states as “royal” houses of Australia and for each in-turn, on a five-year, sequential, contiguous and repetitive basis, to “inherit the throne” and provide an Australian-born citizen as head-of-state.

With a required “majority of the States” “a majority of the electors voting” certain at referendum a STATES republic will ensure continuing unity around and across Australia.

A republic of the Commonwealth of Australia… A republic derived from our Westminster days… Our head-of-state as executive replacing the British monarch and with relevant shared authority.

Our prime minister, as sole elected leader, with relevant shared authority… Our unique-to-the-world republic… A totally Australian-made republic… A STATES republic.

                                         Yogi

                                                                             30 July, 2001.  

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Yogi Marriott                                             CLAREMONT   7011   HOBART                                             JULY   2001

 

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Like A Pendulum Do

Without doubt and without discord Australians want to rid Australia of British monarchy.

We otherwise call it becoming a republic.

But do we want a republic like any of those in Europe, Africa, South America, North America, Asia or any of the multifarious nations of the world?

Republics… Having presidents ubiquitous appointed by direct election or other means… Individuals as sole leaders who all too often visit upon their people profound adversity.

Do we actually want a republic Or do we simply want to get rid of the monarchy?

The monarchy.!!  Then let’s leave it out… Let’s replace it… Let’s redefine the circumstance… Let’s allocate that role to an Australian born citizen.

Let’s have our six disparate colonies-cum-states that formed this nation each in-turn provide a federation-style head-of-state for set periods of five years on a repetitive cycle.

It’s a republic as never before

But it will work because federation says it will

Our Commonwealth of Australia with a federation-style head-of-state and a prime minister as leader who share executive governorship… A STATES republic of Australia.

England swings with a Queen and a prime minister…

Swing also will Australia with a STATES republic derived from our Westminster days…

While cult republics of the world struggle using various lesser systems.

                                                                                                                           Yogi.  

                                                                                                                       9.5.2001.

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Yogi. Marriott                                        CLAREMONT   7011   HOBART                                    May   2001

 

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Con-Con Con

(A Letter-to-the-Editor)

Sydney Tivoli vaudeville during WWII saw Mosy, at a blackboard with chalk-in-hand, plaintively pleading with Tosy “Why is it that when I print F you see K ?”

At Old Parliament House vaudeville during Con-Con 1998 it was asked “Which republic model should be put to the voters to consider against the current system of government?”

One vaudevillian immediately demanded “The president must be elected by two-thirds of a joint sitting of parliament”.

A second vehemently protested “The president must be elected by direct popular election”.

After which Con-Con’s vaudevillians spent two intense but fruitless weeks debating how to elect that president.

Following that Australians-all suffered 86-weeks of endless public debate about how to elect a president.

Were he still here Mosy might ask “Why is it that when I say Republic Model you vaudevillians conjure a President?”

Now euphemistically republicans urge us to vote for an Australian head-of-state… Yet Con-Con republicans conjured a president… And a “yes” vote in November will produce that conjured president.

Australians must vote NO, FOR NOT GOOD ENOUGH, in November and pursue the Australian head-of-state (not leader or president but a federation-style head-of-state) provided by a States’ Head-of-State Selection (STATES) model republic which says…

Let’s take the current system of governmental structure in Australia and, in turning our nation into a watertight republic, change nothing except that the states take agreed, gazetted and sequential turns to elect a head-of-state for contiguous five-year-periods.

And Bingo… Suddenly Con-Con’s question of 1998 is addressed, absorbed, understood and answered.

Were he still now here Mosy might well say… “A Republic Model Tosy… NOT a Model for a President… A REPUBLIC  MODELU  C”.

                                   Yogi

                                                                                               16 Oct 1999

 

A STATES republic is virtually a STATUS QUO republic

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Yogi Marriott                    Waterman Street   Old Bar   2430                    16   October   1999

 

 

 

Website Uploaded 2003

STATES Devised 1998

Conceived Mid-1990s

 

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