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

John Anderson: Conversations

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Is the Voice in the Constitution?

Where the voice is inserted into the constitution will make a difference. If it's put into a chapter on its own, it structurally gives it a significance that it wouldn't otherwise have. And we've got to understand that the constitution evolves very gradually on the basis of the principles that are already established within it. So when you put an institution into its own chapter, you're elevating it to a status that's similar to those other institutions - even if its functions are different.

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