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25.01.2022 ''The golden rule for constitutional change is that this should only be contemplated if it will significantly improve the governance of the nation,'' warns Professor David Flint in ''When no means no'' . https://www.spectator.com.au/2017/08/constitutional-notes/
23.01.2022 Described by its leading victim, Bill Leak, as a rogue totalitarian unit, the Human Rights Commission is an ugly stain on our democracy. If we enjoyed Swiss style direct democracy and sufficient numbers supported a petition, the people could decide whether it should stay or go.
22.01.2022 Nigel Farage addressed the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday Feb 24th, reports Charles Camenzuli. He says Mr. Farage's speech about the British referendum was rousing and covered the conservative revolution against the established political elite and the biased Media. He talked of the strengthening relationship between Britain because of Brexit with America because of Trump It has so much implications on our political seen here in Australia. It would be important to heed the message contained within.
22.01.2022 Discussing the fall out on the Prime Minister's plans for a republic through the use of plebiscites before a referendum
22.01.2022 Its time for the Senate to act on Senator Dastyari
20.01.2022 Tom Gross puts the UK's Speaker's extraordinary attack on President Trump in perspective, The Speaker is meant to be impartial and by convention is usually not challenged by the major parties in his or her electorate. He has no political role as in the US. He is not as subject to party control as in Australia where the whips control question time.
20.01.2022 Michael McLaren interviews David Flint on comment in Spectator Australia on 18 February 2017 ''Tony, Pauline and Cory: Triple Entente '' that the best chance of sound and honest government returning to Australia will be the emergence of, if not a grand coalition, a triple entente between Pauline Hanson, Cory Bernardi, and a restored Prime Minister Tony Abbott. This, he wrote, is of crucial importance to the future of the nation. He also refers in this interview to further evidence that the asylum seeker swap made between Prime Minister Turnbull and President Obama was correctly condemned as a 'dumb deal' by President Trump, both for the US and Australia.Together they will necessarily presage a return to and a reinforcement of fundamental constitutional principles, a subject to which I propose to return in a future column
19.01.2022 The Far Norths Catholic Bishop has voiced his support for a breakaway North Queensland state offering up a throne and possible parliament chamber in Cairns. Bishop James Foley believes the throne, currently in his Cairns residence, would make an ideal Speakers chair. He agreed with a suggestion by Australians for Constitutional Monarchy leader, Professor David Flint, that Cairns Masonic Hall in Minnie St could house a North Queensland Parliament.
18.01.2022 US voters find the Trump administration to be more truthful than the news media. The Trump administration is considered truthful by 49% of voters, to 48% of voters who consider it untruthful. Meanwhile, the news media is considered untruthful by a 53%-majority of voters, to only 39% who find them truthful (a 14-point gap).
17.01.2022 In conversation with Michael McLaren on 2GB, 4BC and the Macquarie Media Network on the foundations of Australia laid in 1788
17.01.2022 David Flint and Rodney Croome debate the same sex marriage plebiscite with contributions from historian John Nethercote all on Tom Switzer's ABC programme Sunday Extra on 6 August 2017
17.01.2022 President Donald Trump was bathed with praise from the same media outlets he regularly criticizes after his Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress. Americans who have systems of direct democracy at some local and state levels could consider introducing this at the federal level.
16.01.2022 The only solution to the mess the politicians have put us in - an Outsiders Convention to consider the 4Rs to reform the governance of Australia and to give us back our country. Listen from 22.47 minutes. https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode/?id=135973 via @whooshkaa
15.01.2022 Coal-fired Australian electricity used to be the cheapest in the world. Because of the unsubstantiated belief that human emissions of CO2 drive global warming, Australian electricity is now among the most expensive in the world. Should not the people be entitled to decide whether their nation should commit economic suicide? Electricity in developing nations such as Ethiopia and Ecuador costs 10 per cent of South Australia, which has intentionally placed itself into sub-third world reliability and costs. Victoria has now joined the suicidal race to the bottom.
14.01.2022 The politicians -both government and opposition - are determined to wreck Australia. How much better it would be if the people could have a say.
14.01.2022 Here's a summary of leaks of US national intelligence material to the media from the Pentagon Papers. Under a system of direct democracy, the people could determine what range of information should be kept secret.
13.01.2022 Imagine a world where Johnathan Thurston is the governor of North Queensland and the fledgling states parliament is conducted in the Cairns Masonic Temple. That was the alternate reality Professor David Flint wove for the crowd at last nights North Queensland New State Forum at Cazalys. In this parallel universe, Cabinet size is limited to seven, the xanthosia flower is the states floral emblem and Floriana the heritage-listed former home of Maltese immigrants Paul and Paulina Zammit on the Esplanade has been repurposed into government house.
12.01.2022 Discussing the same sex marriage plebiscite with Warren Moore on 2GB, 4BC and the Macquarie Media Network 9 August 2017
12.01.2022 Electors should be able to call for a vote on runaway electricity prices due to measures the government is taking claiming to to control the temperature in the world while our coal is sent to China to be burnt there.
10.01.2022 The results in the same sex marriage postal plebiscite or survey are highly questionable. Based on a suspect roll, wide open to fraud, the process lacked the security and scrutiny which applies in an election or referendum.
09.01.2022 Same sex marriage survey: should it have been a referendum? https://youtu.be/dA0TOpjVXpw
08.01.2022 David Flint speaks to Mike Williams on 2GB, 4BC and the Macquarie Broadcasting Network about the Turnbull government's plan to compulsorily acquire about 70 farms on prime agricultural land not for the Australian but for the Singaporean army when alternatives are available.
08.01.2022 The SSM postal survey demonstrates how Citizen Initiated Referendums could be used to advantage in Australia, vastly improving decsion making .
08.01.2022 The best chance of sound and honest government returning to Australia will be the emergence of, if not a grand coalition, a triple entente between Pauline Hanson, who proposes the introduction of direct democracy in Australia, Cory Bernardi and a restored Prime Minister Tony Abbott. This is of crucial importance to the future of the nation.
07.01.2022 The movement for a separate North Queensland state is gathering momentum, according to a recent Cairns Post survey.
07.01.2022 Its that time of year of course when the ACCC annual report into the performance of Australias four largest privately owned airports reminds us of the absolute genius of politicians selling a publicly owned asset into the hands of private monopoly owners so that they can screw everyone who uses them because there is no competitive alternative, writes Ben Sandilands in Crikey on Matt O'Sullivan's report in the Sydney Morning Herald. If Australia had CIR's would this have occurred? Costello would have had to demonstrate a clear public benefit or run the risk of the people vetoing the sale.
06.01.2022 Spectator Australia on Cory Bernardi and the defeat of the farm snatchers
06.01.2022 According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, of the 714 former Guantánamo Bay detainees who were transferred to other countries by Jan. 15, 2017 dating back to when the Bush administration opened the prison in Cuba in January 2002 121 are confirmed to have engaged in militant activity after their release. An additional 75 men released under Mr. Bush and 13 under Mr. Obama were suspected of post-transfer militant activity. Decisions to release detainees are not reviewable immediately by the people through any system of direct democracy, although this exists in some states and local government areas.
05.01.2022 Our founders expected that more states, running there own affairs, would be established in Australia. Provision was made for this in the Constitution, and a wider understanding of this is important. Whether North Queensland should be a state is a matter for the people; on any proper consideration she could easily constitute a state.
04.01.2022 President Trump was right. It was a dumb deal, dumb for both Australia and the United States.
03.01.2022 Peter Manuel, a South Australian cattle farmer, is campaigning against politicians' policies which have meant that farmers' rights to water are now in the hands of merchant bankers and speculators. Would that legislation have survived had the people been able to vote on it?
03.01.2022 This is not direct democracy. All of the details and the consequences of a Yes vote should be on the table before the people vote.Not sprung on them afterwards.
02.01.2022 Caleb Stephen, international journalist and Executive Editor of The Caleb Report, interviews Professor David Flint from Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) in Adelaide, South Australia on January 21, 2017.
02.01.2022 The Far North’s Catholic Bishop has voiced his support for a breakaway North Queensland state offering up a throne and possible parliament chamber in Cairns. Bishop James Foley believes the throne, currently in his Cairns residence, would make an ideal Speaker’s chair. He agreed with a suggestion by Australians for Constitutional Monarchy leader, Professor David Flint, that Cairns Masonic Hall in Minnie St could house a North Queensland Parliament.
