Friends,
As a Buddhist I have misgivings about the appearance of a reference to God in
our constitutional preamble. But then so what! How important is this 'preamble'
going to be: written by a failed suburban solicitor, a man whose autobiography
had to be written by ghost writers and which was being remaindered before the
print run of 7000 copies was finished.
Let's face it, under these circumstances this preamble will just be another
cruel joke on the Australian people along with the GST, removal of R and D
assistance and strangulation of our Universities.
And as far as the Republic goes, forget it. It is a dead duck. Howard et al are
the greatest underground engineers we have seen in Australian politics. They are
dedicated to the total destruction of the Australian way of life in the
interests of themselves and their friends. Currently, we are being bombarded
with 'get rich quicker' schemes for the filthy rich. Report after report on this
subject are emerging. Leaked reports about industrial relations dedicated to
creating a pool of labour which will fight to work for $ 2/hour or thereabouts.
I have recently witness the bitter infighting over jobs at my university and it
is not pretty. This is the environment the Government is encouraging. Not until
they have succeeded in having ten people fighting for one job, the alternative
being no dole, compulsory work for the dole, compulsory literacy courses, and
etc. the Howard Government will not be satisfied. (I find Howard's concept of
'mutual' in 'mutual obligation' rather quaint and one sided.)
We must realise that this is the atmosphere that will prevail in the writing of
this preamble. We can only be thankful that the content of the preamble cannot
be considered as a legal part of the Constitution, otherwise the mention of God
in the preamble along with some 'capital C' judges appointed by Tim Fischer
would soon have us compulsorlory attending Methodist Church each Sunday,
although precedent would encourage us to create mayhem on the other days of the
week.
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Ian J. Henderson Tel: 08 94183972
24 Harfleur Place Fax: 08 93606575
Hamilton Hill E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W.A. 6163 SSHE, Murdoch University
Australia Murdoch, W.A. 6150.
'Freedom is having nothing left to fear' (I. Henderson, 1998)
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