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daveb@perth.DIALix.oz.au writes:

> simonr@magna.com.au (Simon Rumble) writes:

> >Hahahahaha
> >Consitutional RIGHTS, you say...
> >Well, you have the right to, erm, vote in elections and referenda...
> >You want more?  Move to the USA.
> > ___                 simonr@magna.com.au

> Just so. The US Constitution is replete (esp. in its Amendments) with 
> "Congress shall make no law which...".
> The Australian Constitution contains just one such prohibition: There 
> shall be no established religion. Big deal.
> 
> The reason of course, is that the US Constitution was drafted by people 
> who (having just rebelled against an overbearing government) knew how 
> dangerous government could be. Ours was drafted by bureaucrats in the 
> British Colonial Office, with a view to giving such bureaucrats an easy life.
> 
> Probably is time to look at re-drafting our Constitution. But _not_ by 
> President-elect Keating :-(

Having read both the US and Australian constitutions, and being moved by
the fine spirit of the USA's, and bored to sleep by the legal tedium of
Australia's, I'd strongly agree that ours needs a complete re-write.
Preferably just after a we've had a revolution and chucked out the sort
of people who think network censorship is a good idea.

The current piece of trash reminded me of nothing so much as a set of
penal colony regulations. Funny, that.
I don't recall the concept of 'rights' being mentioned anywhere in it.

Guy Dunphy

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