Not Even The “Quiet Aussies” Have a Recognised Voice

Have YOU ever felt you don’t know enough about the Aussie constitution?

Perhaps you have never read it. 

Nor do you probably never intend to! Why bother reading it …. if it’s not relevant to you? 

For far too long our constitution, has not only NOT recognised our First Nation peoples, but it also has not recognised the human rights, of the ordinary, everyday, elector: the quiet Australians: in other words YOU.

I have realised in an age, where service delivery, is shaped by customer needs and wants . . . . the Aussie constitution, reflects the ideas, and the outdated thinking of our 18th-century forefathers.

They had no real idea of the Australia we have evolved into today. 

I have also realised that our nation’s birth certificate is just a rule book for our 227 elected politicians, otherwise known as the “Canberra bubble”.

In layman’s terms the purpose of the rule book is to guide their behaviours to run our country.  

As a granddaughter of Aboriginal activist Pearl Gibbs, who was one of many hundreds of thousands of Aussies who fought for the last change in nineteen sixty-seven, it’s in my DNA to 1) raise awareness, 2) educate and 3) campaign for the next change. Human Rights was at the very heart of this vote. It’s still there today. Let's make it count today.

One of my current obsessions is to seek the inclusion of EVERY Australian in our national rule book. 

That is people of all abilities, ages, diversities, sexualities and spiritualities be included rather than excluded. As are our First Nation peoples, who have been caring for this continent for over 65,000 years.  

Today more than ever there needs to be a whole new chapter in our nation’s birth certificate to bring it into the 21st century.

We need to make the constitution mean something for every Australian rather than the elected few. 

If we just tinker with the preamble, we favour and settle for the bubble’s point of view rather than the sum of all of us. 

Back in 1967: 90% of electors (that is how we the people are referred to in the current constitution) voted yes for Aborigine peoples to be counted in the census.

There has never been a better time to make this a bi-partisan political issue for the human rights of all Australians.

Now is the time for  ALL of us to come together again as electors, citizens, humans and the “Canberra bubble” to get onto the same page and to support each other.

Together we can advocate and vote for the constitution to have meaning for all of us rather than some of us.  

Want to know now more about how can educate ourselves, and campaign for a change, comment below or DM so we can have a yarn about what needs to be done.