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Can Kickin’ and Chain Dragging.

Can Kickin’ and Chain Dragging.

A Bill of Rights must stand above any future constitution and must be the guide to a new Australian Constitution. If we have to work within the framework of this old Royalist Constitution with all its enshrined inequalities and inequities and its protection of the minority called government then we will continually find ourselves battling against the odds. A Bill of Rights is a moral document and laws are made from it – not the other way around. Noel Pearson,…

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My Country, Right or Wrong?

My Country, Right or Wrong?

A branch secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia and president of the NT Trades & Labour Council, Thomas Mayor, part of the Uluru convention, has been touring the country to help build support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. “We’ve just had this amazing moment [with the Uluru statement], we’ve been pushing it, and we’re going to get sent to the back of the bus to wait for a republic that does nothing to empower our people,” he said….

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