The referenda questions set in recently passed Commonwealth legislation and passed into law violate the rights of every Australian.
What is planned is not simply a change to the so-called Constitution but a completely new Constitutional arrangement which it is planned to trick the Australian population into inadvertently accepting at the November referendum.The government have chosen, what is being promoted as two alternatives, when in fact they are both the same the only difference being in the name of the Head of State, where if this name is to be president then the government is handing itself a blank cheque to alter the document at will, but it is the same document. The people in the view of government have no choice outside of the two alternatives they chose to present. This approach is contrary to International Bill of Rights
The parliaments actions in passing these Referendum Question Laws attempt deny the Australian people the international right to self-determination in accordance with international commitments freely entered into by the federal government when agreeing to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 23-3-1976. Articles 1 and 2 and 18(3).
The people have a right to determine how they agree to be governed, government is as it should be and must remain, by agreement of the people, not by force of government. No Country or government may use force of any kind against the people and must accept its obligations to protect their rights. UN Charter: Articles 1(2) - 2(1), (4) & (7) - 4(1)
The charade of pretending that Australia has suddenly become independent being used to assist in tricking the Australian people into accepting one of the two government alternatives is criminal, as it is fraud committed on a grand scale. Article X of the League of Nations Charter to which both Britain and Australia were foundation members later confirmed in July 1945 under Article 1 of the United Nations Charter, Articles 1(2) & 2(1).
The government have no power to impose conditions on the constitutional arrangements. It is obvious that they intend to bluff the people into a position where they will be forcibly encouraged to vote against their own best interests and in doing so, abandon their most basic human right, that of determining the rules under which they agree to be governed. It is totally fraudulent of the government to go to the people on the pretence that they will be amending a document that is the legal constitution of the country, when at best it was prior to 1920; and then only legal when used in conjunction with a number of other documents which were essential to give it legal life and make it operational.
Under international law and Australia's willing commitment to it, the Prime Minister, nor the Governor-General, nor the State Premiers, nor anybody else in the world have a legitimate or legal power to dictate the form of government the people should have, with or without the approval of the Australian parliaments, nor do they have the power to determine the method of determining the position of Head of State, or how one should be chosen. It is only the will of the people expressed in free choice at referendum may a new form of government and a Head of State be determined. Free choice has been removed when the only options are between two alternatives designed by other than the people.
Confirmation of Australia's Constitutional position which has been a well kept secret is gradually coming to hand. In the Bega Magistrates Court on April 1,1999, a senior Government solicitor stated that, "the Constitution does not exist". Later verified in the High Court at Brisbane, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns in the matter of Heather Hill, when the court concluded that "Britain is a foreign power".
The pretence that has been sustained since 10 January 1920 is coming apart.
The climax to this eighty-year old fraud, is to bluff the Australian people into accepting a denuded, inadequate document, a document that on its own, without its companion documents will establish an immovable dictatorship in Australia.
A more explanatory booklet is available from Alternative Three, for $5 posted, title "Australians for Constitutional Democracy"
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