Despite decades of failure, Australia’s constitution can be modernised
Most Australians were not alive the last time it was updated. This is why the nation needs to work out a way to pass referendums.
The 2023 referendum was the ninth consecutive defeat for the yes case. SMH
Sir Robert Menzies once described referendums as one of the labours of Hercules. In the wake of nine failed polls since 1984, some might see the challenge as more Sisyphean than Herculean.
It has been almost 50 years since Australia last approved a change to the Constitution. Most Australians were not alive the last time the nation said “yes”.
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