Changing the Australian Constitution was always meant to be difficult – here's why
- Written by Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
Debates about constitutional change in Australia inevitably raise the poor success rate of referendums. Only eight out of 44 attempts have ever succeeded and there has not been a successful constitutional change since 1977.
So why was the referendum chosen as the means of amending our federal constitution, and was it really intended to be so hard...
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