Steve Vizard
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Two weeks in Lilliput : bear-baiting and backbiting at the Constitutional Convention (1998) — Autor — 18 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Vizard, Stephen William
- Geburtstag
- 1956-03-06
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- male
- Nationalität
- Australia
- Land (für Karte)
- Australia
- Geburtsort
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- 19
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- #609,294
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- 3.0
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- 1
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It's 'accepted wisdom' that the then Prime Minister (an ardent monachist) sabotaged the process by directing the Convention towards a model that excluded direct election of the Head of State. Vizard's account makes it clear that most of that work was actually achieved by a mix of idealists and rationalists who over-reached themselves, and under-estimated the complexity of the argument that they were putting to the Australian public. A Head of State appointed by a two-thirds majority of Parliament (their preferred model) was essentially very democratic, but it played to the suspicions of the public towards Parliament itself. Howard's genius was to accept the model and push it to an early national referendum, before the public had a chance to grow familiar with what was being proposed.
Vizard captures the moment, and the people in this passionate account of one of Ausralia's great political train wrecks… (mehr)