Conversations: with Nicholas Aroney, Professor of Constitutional Law at The University of Queensland
John Anderson: Conversations
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The Indigenous Voice in the Australian Constitution
In Australia to win a change to the constitution you have to have a majority of people in a majority of states. So it's not just a simple majority of the Australian people. You need a higher test for fear of upsetting national harmony. Each of the states entered the federation as an independent self-governing community. And so is respected as such, even in the process whereby the constitution could be changed.
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