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How to Know When You're Moving Too Quickly for Society
I don't have any good answers in my own to that question of how do you know when you're moving too quickly for society or not quickly enough? But I was reflecting on a couple of possibly illustrative examples from your own career, and one was the issue of the Republic. There's this lovely passage in your 1993 book, The Reluctant Republic, where you say that so long as our constitution provides that whoever sits on the throne of Great Britain is to be our head of state, our progress to independence is incomplete. They're trying to sort of play on our loss aversion by saying we could have this beautiful completed Australian project, but it's not done. And the only thing