After a study of the Australian Constitution..
After my little rant I decided to look deeper into the history and workings of the current political system. Which turned into more of a deeper look into different political systems, strengths, weaknesses, and how they fit in with my particular view points. But once I got passed that I started reading about the Philosophy of Democracy. You know what: Democracy is good!
I know. That’s not an overly astounding conclusion. But it is worth-while questioning if the system you have always known is actually correct.
I’ve spent three days reading about Australian Federation and the Australian Constitution. I can hardly summarise that. However I have come to understand I would need to change the Australian Constitution in order to fully enact my more radical ideas. Such an action is not unprecedented; and even allowed for in the Constitution. But requires an enormously intricate majority vote: Majorities in both Houses of Government plus a people’s majority vote plus a majority of state based majorities.
Of course the only real way to achieve that is to be in a position to introduce a bill for referendum into the sitting government… Where I go from here I don’t know just yet. But I feel strangely invigorated to “try and make a difference”… which could make the next few years very interesting.