The most important things in Australia at the present time are to stop thinking that 51% is a majority that gives a government what they like to call a mandate to rule by ministerial discretion. By decree instead by law.

“Oh you say they’re old & they aren’t laws – yes they have age and have stood the test of time as to law – well I don’t believe that man needs law. If he would heed his moral base there would be no need of artificial law. But if he needs law then this moral base is the only base for law.” – John Milton.

Then, we have to realise that free speech is free speech and its not a right that can be taken away by the imposition of this thing called political correctness. That we not only can’t, but should even try to legislate evolution.

That, Australia is not a Democracy even though we like to think it is and our rulers keep assuring us that it is. Democracy requires democratic process and we the people are the only ones that can assure this. No government no matter how good it says it is will assure democratic process under a constitution that doesn’t protect Democracy.

A government that shuts down the rights of a people for their own good, that presumes that it knows better than the people who pay Ministerial saleries is a government that openly tramples our basic rights in a Democracy.

“It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adding any argument in support of it, act very absurdly – I wish to be allowed freely to question and freely to answer without any sort of adulation.” – Vincenzio Galilei.

To protect us against this sort of government of presumption and elitist wisdom we must have a Bill of Rights. We must enshrine democratic process in our constitution.

We must ensure that those who we choose to represent us are beholden to us and not the parliament and not the government. Their contract is first and foremost with the people they are supposed to represent. We must be able to remove any of our representatives at any time that they break the contract with us.

We must not allow a government to hide secrets from us because they say that it is in our interests to do so. We must not allow a government to take us to war without our explicit approval and must not allow a government to divide us from each other within the boundaries of our country. There is no secret so dangerous for us, for us not to know what it is that is considered so dangerous for us, but that is considered safe for democratically elected representatives of our community’s. By withholding this vital information they break the contract with us.

“The functions therefore of ministers and magistrates, commonly so called, do not relate to any particular topic respecting which they have a right exclusive of the representative assembly. They do not relate to any supposed necessity for secrecy; for secrecy in political affairs … is rarely salutary or wise, and secrets of state will commonly be found to consist of that species of information relative to the interest of a society respecting which the chief anxiety of its depositories is that it should be concealed from the members of that society.” – William Godwin.

We must not allow a government to say to us, that proper process is too expensive or too time consuming. We must not allow government ministers to presume that their wisdom and integrity is greater than ours.

We must defend our rights against a governments assumed rights. Their rights come from us and must be, not only agreed by us but equal to ours, ensured by us and understood by us, by us.

We must not allow a government to become the giver of rights. And we must not allow a government to judge what is to be, or not to be, our character.

We must limit the power of a government to make decisions for us without adequate consultation – Australia’s current parliament and our current constitution does not give us the consulting power that is our due nor that is required for a just and fair and inclusive democratic society. All of us, and our guests, all 25 million of us require a more hands on approach the the governing of our country. It is not enough to have only one day every few years were we are allowed to ‘consult, participate and direct’ our futures.

Every single debate and session of our parliament must be openly available to us to participate in by observation – we have the technology and there should be a free to air broadcast of every minute of the proceedings whether we choose to observe them of not is inconsequential. The fact that we may be observing is the only protection we require, and it is a right not up to a government to give or take. It makes a Democracy.

Free speech, thought and expression – everyone’s – is fundamental to ensuring Democracy and democratic process.

“Let us note that decency is a virtue – its an attitude, a disposition, a characteristic – not a theory or a law. It is more fundamental than any specific commandments and as such also more sound.” – Kristian Williams.

We are either a Democracy or we are not!

Political Correctness is Censorship and Censorship is poison to Democracy.

“If there is one undeniable fact, attested a thousand times by experience, it is the corrupting effect of authority on those in whose hands it is placed … The functions of members of the government have come to be regarded as the private property of individuals … They have become in their own eyes the government; and it appears natural that their own particular ideas should seem to them to be the official and only authorised doctrine … while divergent ideas expressed by others become no longer a legitimate expression of opinion equal in value to their own, but a veritable heresy.” – Karl Marx.