Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
- Written by Benjamin T. Jones, Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia
Many high school students are politically engaged. But how would they change the preamble to the Constitution?AAP/Lukas Coch
When the Australian constitution was written in the 1890s, the authors did not envision an independent nation, but a self-governing dominion of the British empire. As such, the preamble does not contain flowery language about...
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