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Conversations: with Nicholas Aroney, Professor of Constitutional Law at The University of Queensland

John Anderson: Conversations

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What's the Machinery of Amendment?

Any proposal to change the Constitution has to be passed by the Parliament in the first place. Then it has to be put to the people in a referendum and you need to get the support of a majority of voters across Australia as well as a majority of Voters in the majority of states. And so it itself will be subject to the normal vicitudes of parliamentary debate. A law ordinarily has to be passing by both houses, unless there's a prolonged deadlock between them. There are processes or procedures rarely used to try and break the deadlock. So I'm not going to recognition, but that's where I come from, constitutionally.

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