Much is being made of the total cost of Governor-General Quentin Bryce's controversial 18-day trek to 10 African countries earlier this year. With various costs, the bill to taxpayers is in the vicinity of...

Among the dominant faction of our political elite the Australian people have acquired a bad name. The reason is simply explained: whereas members of the elite almost always want the ordinary punters to record...

Under the European Constitution (camouflaged as the Treaty of Lisbon) there will be a President, but beyond certain minimal duties, nobody knows what he or she will do. The media call the position the...

  The elite groups pushing for constitutional change in Australia are extraordinarily careless of the consequences of their plans, which are now kept under wraps. Recent events in France illustrate the danger. When it...

There will be no significant constitutional change in Australia in the next fifty years. This is the confident prediction of the nation’s leading observer of the electoral process, Professor Malcolm Mackerras. His famous pendulum...

The campaigners for a politician’s republic are always looking for some silver bullet which will magically change the constitution for them. Most of them are disappointed about the reluctance of Australians to approve proposals...

Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos of Brondesbury was born 13 March 1954 in Guyana and studied at the Universities of Warwick, Birmingham and  East Anglia. She was made an Honorary Professor at Thames Valley...

Sending out a “Yes/No booklet” summarising the arguments in a referendum, and providing full details of the proposed changes has been a feature of Australian political life for close on one century. Originally proposed...