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The Life and Times of a Thoroughly liberal Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Tumi Model for Direct Election
Tension between direct electionists and those who thought had, Australian head of state should be chosen by a majority of parliament was the central issue that torpedoed the Republic in 1999. The Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney has come up with an idea to resolve that tension next time around. Anne's idea was to have the Australian people choose the head of state from the state governors. To ensure the dignity of the process, you wouldn't have direct campaigning by the governors. There'd be no policies or campaigning, so they wouldn't have a mandate that rivals the Prime Minister. But there are basically two options on offer: You can vote for someone like Donald Trump - I don't
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