Trudy,
I am so sorry you couldnt get in touch with me, i have a new job and my
mailbox filled up over the week.....
with the preamble, we get the canberra times only 3 times a week, and i
got really cross reading some of the entries published because they did
not acknowledge Aboriginal people at all, but i must say that the 3
entries that were finally chosen were all really good.
I have just raced out to the recycling bin and grabbed the newspaper
out! clapping and cheering at this end..okay..hehehehe i hear the truck
coming right now, talk about timing.
Here is the winning one:
After 100 years of Federation, at the start of a new Century and
Millennium, the People of Australia -secure in our identity, mindful of
our history and confident of our future -have elected to reshape our
Constitution as an expression of independent and united nationhood.
This new Constitution acknowledges the achievements of our past. All
Australians are the inheritors of our history: from the first
indigineous inhabitants who peopled this country for thousands of years
before European settlement and whose living culture and sacred
connections with the land so enrich the life and fabric of contemporary
Australia; to the first settlers of the original six colonies, whose
energy, courage, invention and tolerance laid the foundation for
continuing prosperity and of the free, open, stable, civil society we
all enjoy; and to successive immigrants from all corners of the world,
whose cultural inheritance forms part of the living mosaic of Australian
nationality.
This Constitution affirms our future and enshrines our values. We are a
free, sovereign and independent people; of many origins but a single
destiny; of diverse backgrounds but common goals; inheritors and
guardians of an ancient and unique land; dedicated at home to freedom,
justice and equality under the law; abroad, to peaceful partnership with
neighbors and the extended family of nations from which we come; and in
perpetuity to the tolerant and humane advancement of all our people.
Diane Ferry
Kingston
Canberra
What does everyone think?
I will put in the other 2 selections next time, that is about all this 2
fingered typist can manage today! Apparently the 2 judges were unanimous
with the choice for first place. The judges were, Canberra novelist
Marion Halligan, and George Williams, a barrister and commentator on
constitutional issues.
>Karyn,
>
>I tried to contact you two days ago but your address bounced.
>
>Would you be so kind as to keep us up to date on the Preamble
competition in the Canberra Times?
>If they publish selections of what they receive would it be possible
for you to post some of
>them?
>
>Thanks,
>Trudy
>
>
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