AUSTRALIA DAY - COLONIAL OCCUPATION Australia Day does commemorate the founding of the colony of Australia, which in truth, was based on the occupation by a foreign force. After the country was split up into several colonies, they eventually decided to come together as the Federated Colony of Australia under a UK law passed in Britain in 1900. This Act is divided into 9 parts in which one part is titled, the Constitution. As of 2012, the Colony of Australia still uses this Act of the British Parliament as their Constitution, which puts us in breach of the United Nations Charter Articles 2.1,2.4, 102 and 103, which prohibit an independent member from using the laws of any other member nation. So, in a strict legal sense, as long as Australia continues to use the law of a foreign country as their Constitution; no matter what anyone may say, think or wish, Australia cannot be an independent, sovereign nation, but must remain a colony of Britain. The late Professor G. Clements, Eminent UK QC and emeritus Professor in Law at Cambridge University clearly understood the true legal position of the Australian Constitution when he remarked, ‘The continued usage of the Australian Constitution Act (UK) by the Australian Governments and the judiciary is a confidence trick of monstrous proportions played upon the Australian people with the intent of maintaining power. It remains an Act of the United Kingdom. After joining the League of Nations in 1919, Australia became a sovereign nation. It had no further legal power to use, alter or otherwise tamper with another nation’s legislation. Authority over the Australian Constitution Act lies not with the Australian government nor with the Australian people, it rests solely with the UK. Only they have the authority to repeal this legislation ...’ Graham Paterson Says: January 26, 2014 It is totally untrue that the Australian Constitution is a democratic document as democracy wasn’t remotely part of the process. It was only through the persistence of Dr, John Quick that a few selected people, those with property, but certainly not any women, got to have a vote at all. Both the colonies of Queensland and Western Australia refused to allow a vote at the first referendum, but Queensland did take part in the second one after the first was defeated. In addition, those few selected voters, some who were entitled to multiple votes, were only asked if they wanted federation, the acceptance of the constitutional draft was assumed as very few people ever got to read the draft, or were allowed to comment on it. In fact, several proposals for involvement of the people got shot down in flames as being ultra- democratic. On the other hand, your statement about the Constitution being the most important document in everyone’s life is correct. It is a document designed and written by lawyers cum politicians, to perpetuate the Westminster system of the colonial era, where the government is the sole source of political power to make the laws that control the people. As for your comment about Referendums, there has only been 19 referendums in the past 100 years, and every one of them have been initiated by the Government – not one has been allowed to be initiated by the people, who rightfully, should be the “owners” of the Constitution. In the course of the 19 referendums, the government has tried to slip in an additional 25 amendments, often unrelated to the primary amendment, but the commonsense of the people has seen all but 8 of these 44 amendments for what they really are – a grab for more power by the Federal Government. Actually, it is quite a shame that we celebrate Australia Day as it really represents a land grab by the British to create a new colony. It would be an even greater travesty of the truth to celebrate a Constitution Day in honour of a purely colonial document that is still the law of a foreign country. What Australian’s must eventually do is for the people to write their own truly Australian Constitution and divorce ourselves from all political and legal ties to the UK. Only then can we claim to be a truly sovereign and independent nation.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:02:36 +0000
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