Brief -- What is Alternative Three?

Brief -- What is Alternative Three?

United People Power The Power of One United.

Alternative Three is a project of United People Power.

A revolution in the way people think about government which can best be explained by an extract from the American Declaration of Independence.

Not that we suggest that Australia should necessarily follow the American example, but the statement is a universally accepted benchmark:-

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, -----that all men are created equal, -------that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, ------that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ------That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, ------deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ---------that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."

We consider that Australian government has become destructive of these ends.

What can the people do to overcome this situation?

To introduce a fresh Constitution is the only reasonable answer. How do we do that?

The first thing not to do is to ask for government permission, as it will be refused. There is no need to ask permission from any authority, the authority to do exists in the authority of the people that is backed by international law and the human right to do so.

The universal problem is how to introduce a fresh constitution . --What is required?

1. A draft Constitution. --------- The Alternative Three Draft is now published.

2. The means of getting electors to a referendum. -------- Already in place for November 1999.

The method of voting to be used. ------- Simply write Alternative Three across the ballot - paper provided.
Informing all Australians of the Alternative Three option. - This is largely up to you now -that you have the knowledge.

To introduce a Fresh Constitution is as simple as exercising your right to a secret ballot at any referendum, it matters not what other issues are to be voted on at the referendum, the people have a universally accepted right to do so and there is absolutely nothing government can legally do to prevent this event from taking place and being totally bound by the outcome should a majority vote in favour of the fresh Constitution.

If a majority don’t vote in favour, then a powerful message will still be delivered to government on any reasonable number of votes and at the same time the broader population will made alert to the possibilities - we believe that it would be only lack of awareness that would see the Alternative Three Fresh Constitution not receive majority support.

How does an Alternative Three vote effect the result of the government run referendum?

If a majority cast a vote for Alternative Three then the government's proposition has failed. - If less than a majority vote Alternative Three then this number of votes counts against the YES proposition, or if you like adds to the NO vote. Therefore people opposing the proposed republic have nothing to lose and everything to gain when voting Alternative Three.

Knockers will say that a vote for Alternative Three will be declared informal, this is not legally possible as the legislation covering referendums, as amended in 1998, clearly sets out that an informal vote is one where the voters intention is not clear. This is why it is important to not answer any of the government's referendum questions and vote clearly Alternative Three or A3 on both the republican and the preamble ballot papers.

An Alternative Three vote in fact takes on a position where the people are totally rejecting the government's proposals, -- proposals that are bound by the rules of the legislation and the Constitution itself. The only rules that apply to a vote for Alternative Three is that the vote is cast in a totally fair and properly supervised situation. These requirements are met by the procedures in place for the referendum. Part of the authorisation is the absolute necessity to use the officially issued ballot papers and write clearly across them, as opposed to using separate ballot papers is that the officially issued ballot papers are properly recorded and beyond dispute that may be raised by any authority.

Republican supporters are not disadvantaged by any of the procedures, because a vote for Alternative Three is a vote for a republic, a different republic to that proposed by government.

The Alternative Three Fresh Draft Constitution, is the Constitution of a republic where the people elect the Head of State and it retains the absolutely essential checks and balances that we inherited from the English monarchal system, it also retains the concept of a crown and a privy council, reproduced in an elected body called the Australian Constitutional Crown Council (ACCC), which is charged with the same duties, limits and responsibilities as a monarch under the English system, with one important difference in that the people can ensure that the ACCC will do its Constitutionally defined duty. It also builds in, by listing in the Constitution, all the Laws that enshrine the fundamental rights of Australians such as Magna Carta and Habeas Corpus - this is something remarkably absent from all of the government's proposals.

The detail of the Alternative Three proposals is available in the draft Constitution, a copy of which may be obtained from United People Power for $5 posted. Also available are two other booklets setting out the history/ background of legal rights in Australia, titled "Magna Carta Sabotaged" and a booklet titled "Australians for Constitutional Democracy". $5 each posted.

A Constitution Kit including all of above is available by mail or by phoning 1902-26-85-11 for $22.50 posted including the cost of the phone call from anywhere across Australia, which by arrangement between UPP and your telephone service supplier the cost will be charged to your next telephone account.

Revised: December 05, 2007.