This treatise calls for all Australians to throw off the last of their colonial shackles. Providing a powerful case for the Australian republic and a full plan for the new constitution, the author argues that Australia should cease to rely on Britain to provide its head of state. The author favours a republic that will preserve the existing system of government, but be controlled by a constitution that is a true democratic charter - unlike the present one. His work examines the problems of how to elect a president and how to define the president's power, and offers its own distinctive solutions.
- ISBN10 0195536495
- ISBN13 9780195536492
- Publish Date 15 March 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 July 2001
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 180
- Language English